JOURNAL ARTICLE

After the Women's Health Initiative--Menopausal Women and Hormone Therapy

JoAnn V. Pinkerton

Year: 2005 Journal:   The AMA Journal of Ethic Vol: 7 (11)   Publisher: American Medical Association

Abstract

A physician presents the findings of the Women's Health Initiative and the indications and contraindications for the prescription of hormone therapy for menopausal and postmenopausal women. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.

Keywords:
Hormone therapy Women's Health Initiative Medicine Postmenopausal women Gynecology Hormone replacement therapy (female-to-male) Political science Internal medicine Breast cancer Testosterone (patch) Cancer

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Topics

Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
Health Sciences →  Medicine →  Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Estrogen and related hormone effects
Life Sciences →  Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology →  Genetics
Endometriosis Research and Treatment
Health Sciences →  Medicine →  Reproductive Medicine
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