Medically reviewed by Khadeja Haye, MD Key Takeaways Progesterone is a female sex hormone that plays a vital role in the ...

September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, a reminder of the importance of knowing the symptoms, talking with your ...

ORLANDO -- A natural, or bioidentical, combined estradiol-progesterone capsule (TX-001HR) significantly decreases the frequency and severity of moderate to severe hot flashes in postmenopausal women, ...

This meta-analysis included 10 randomized controlled trials with 1586 patients and evaluated natural progesterone or synthetic progestogens compared with no treatment or placebo. Women receiving ...

Most of the women I know experience some PMS-related symptoms leading up to their period. But while I might be in the deepest misery, with bloating and mood swings, my BFF might just get a pimple.

Although American scientists had been busy studying hormones in the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret sanger's dream of a pill for birth control improbably came to fruition because of the discovery of a wild ...

Conditions such as amenorrhea, endometrial and breast cancers, PCOS, and AIDS-related endocrine disruptions are significantly increasing demand for progesterone therapies. For instance, U.S. sees ...

If you elect to replace hormones and do not have a uterus, you only need to replace estrogen (ERT). If you do have a uterus, progesterone must be added to prevent excess buildup of the uterine lining ...