To alleviate vaginal dyspareunia or dryness, a painful symptom of menopause that causes sexual dysfunction, Yale researchers have created a topical estrogen that eliminates side effects of ...

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many cellular and bodily functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes. Scientists have now learned more about how estrogen ...

There are other options for hormone therapy.

Women who previously had endometrial cancer and used vaginal estrogen therapy did not have higher risk for cancer recurrence than those who did not use vaginal hormone therapy, according to findings ...

Estrogen agonists/antagonists are compounds with tissue-selective actions. The pharmacological goal of these compounds is to produce beneficial estrogenic actions in certain tissues (e.g., bone and ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects more than one billion people worldwide and is a leading cause of heart disease ...