Ten years ago today, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was abruptly stopped when the study found that menopause hormone therapy was causing serious medical problems in otherwise healthy women, including an increased risk of breast cancer.   The WHI was one of the largest preventive women’s health studies ever conducted in the United States. It...

  Soon after menopause, though I had no symptoms that bothered me, my internist suggested I consider hormone replacement therapy.  I was leery, not seeing a need to take pills for something I didn’t have.  She seemed to understand and suggested a few things I might read.  I read them, and through they were mildly supportive, they were no convincing....

  A drug company paid for the earliest efforts to "educate" doctors about hormone therapy, providing undisclosed grants and paying travel expenses for a physician, Robert Wilson, who traveled the country in the 1960s lecturing about the glorious benefits of hormone therapy. In 1966, Wilson also published a book, Feminine Forever, touting his claims that HT would...

  About a couple of weeks ago Transgender issues made its way to a Senate Briefing, the newspaper and social media sites (like twitter). While the Senate Briefing and the newspaper article probably had nothing to do with each other, I think that the discrimination, the politics around access to care, and the resilience of those who identify as transgender are all things we...