Long overlooked in women 40 and older, midlife eating disorders are going up. Eating disorder specialists cite hormonal ...

HRT is often thought of as a drug to treat menopausal women in their late 40s, 50s and beyond, however, it is increasingly being prescribed to those who may have previously been considered too young.

For the new study, researchers examined data on about 47,000 postmenopausal women who had used hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and roughly 70,000 who had not. Subjects were in their late fifties ...

The women were 50 years old on average when they went through menopause, and 52 on average when they started hormone therapy. Most of the women were taking hormone therapy for hot flashes.

Methods: The study included data from 5,482 postmenopausal women aged 45–74 years in the 2007–2012 KNHANES. The use of female HRT for at least one month was reclassified as HRT+/HRT-.

Many women who go into surgical menopause at 50 or older -- the natural time of menopause - decide not to get HRT. That's because their supply of estrogen would naturally drop during menopause anyway.

Using some types of HRT before the menopause could increase the risk of breast cancer in young women, a study suggests. The ...

NIH study could help to guide clinical recommendations for hormone therapy use among women under 55 years old.

A new study suggests that women who use a popular hormonal menopause treatment later in life may be at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition that affects ...