As much as they may be a small nuisance to take every day, oral contraceptives — that’s the pill — are here to stay (at least until better, longer-term, and more convenient birth control options come ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone-targeted therapy for prostate cancer may raise the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, a large U.S. study suggests. Analyzing data on more than 154,000 older ...

Use of MHT following menopause is not associated with an increased risk for breast cancer among BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers.

Investigators sought to evaluate changes in the estimated CV risk of men with prostate cancer after 6 months of hormone therapy using clinical tools established for the general population.

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) are the third most common form of modern birth control used around the world. There are two types of IUDs — copper IUDs that do not release any hormones and hormonal IUDs ...

New research shows that all hormonal birth control methods raise your risk for developing breast cancer. Researchers found that your risk increases with advancing age. Experts explain what you should ...

Both progestin-only and combined hormonal birth control slightly raises the chances of getting breast cancer, a new study with the University of Oxford found, but the overall risk remains low. The ...

Hormone therapy (also called hormonal therapy or endocrine therapy) slows or stops the growth of hormone-sensitive tumors by blocking the body’s ability to produce hormones or by interfering with the ...

A new American Heart Association scientific statement is highlighting the potential long-term cardiovascular effects of hormonal therapies used in patients with certain cancers. “Hormone-dependent ...

Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, was the first menopause treatment available to women, approved by the FDA in 1941. It ...

Disruptions to our circadian clocks—the internal molecular timekeepers "ticking" in nearly every cell of our body throughout ...

"The brain is an exquisite sensor of what's going on in your body," says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Assistant Professor ...