Health
Use of morning-after pill on the rise: CDC
(HealthDay)—The number of U.S. women using the "morning-after" contraception pill has risen dramatically in the last decade, federal health officials report.
Feb 14, 2013
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News tagged with progestin
Oncology & Cancer
More analysis from the women's health initiative on hormones, breast cancer
Analysis of the longer-term influence of menopausal hormone therapy on breast cancer incidence in two Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trials suggests a pattern of changing influences over time on breast cancer, according ...
Apr 16, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Continuous joint use of estrogen and progestin lowers risk of EC in postmenopausal women
Adding continuous progestin to estrogen has been shown to lower the risk of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women according to a study published December 14 in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Dec 14, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Fighting cancer: Natural and synthetic progestin therapies in post-menopausal women help breast cancer grow and spread
Hormone replacement therapies, or medications containing female hormones that substitute those no longer produced by the body, often are prescribed to reduce the effects of menopausal symptoms in women. Research has indicated ...
Jul 12, 2017
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Health
Range of treatments can lessen heavy periods
Dear Mayo Clinic: After almost a year of having a period that is much heavier than normal, my gynecologist recommended an IUD as treatment. How does this work, and is it safe? I am 38, and I'm done having children, but don't ...
Jul 18, 2016
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Pattern of estrogen-progestin use from 1970 to 2010 described
(HealthDay)—The use of estrogen-progestin has varied over the past 40 years, peaking in the 1990s and declining in the early 2000s, according to a study published online Sept. 8 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Sep 16, 2014
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