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Press Releases Health and financial analysis reinforces NIH's decision to fund Women's Health Initiative An in-depth analysis of final data from one of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trials has found that...

An extended and detailed analysis of data from the landmark Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trials on menopausal hormone therapy is being published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The results support the...

By Leslie Wade, CNN CNN — When Janice hit menopause, she had terrible night sweats and hot flashes, but she was scared to undergo hormone replacement therapy. Janice (who asked that her full name not be used for privacy reasons) had heard this...

Back in 2002, a research study blew apart the widely held belief that hormone replacement therapy protected women from heart disease and other chronic ills. Instead, the Women's Health Initiative study found that taking estrogen plus progestin hormone...

In April 2005, researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute published a study that concluded that people who are over their ideal weight but not obese actually have a lower risk of death than people who...