Is Hormone Therapy Helpful After All?

This kind of back-and-forth waffling by what the media reports is most unhelpful. Most doctors and probably almost all laymen only know what the media tells them, which is bad as the media often, deliberately or otherwise, either misinterpret or incorrectly generalze the findings of research projects. If we could get a reliable media source to report on these types of research, i.e. the kind that have the potential to affect a large number of people's lives, that would go a good way toward positive publicty for the scientific community in general, and longevity research in particular. The public currently has the impression that scientific research is unreliable at best.

Researchers have found that estrogen therapy for menopause might not be as bad as previously thought -- especially for younger women.

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