Many breast cancer drugs block estrogen receptors inside cancer cells. Blocking the receptors early in disease progression staves off metastasis. But most patients with advanced disease eventually ...

Scientists at Rockefeller University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University have discovered how estrogen initiates physical changes in rodent brain cells that lead to increased learning and ...

Scientists report that understanding how estrogen contributes to seizure activity could lead to novel and needed therapeutic targets for anti-epileptic drugs. In more than a third of women with ...

In the past few years, a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge have explored the correlation between testosterone and autism, with some evidence to boot. But now, new research is showing ...

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a condition that weakens bones, making them brittle and prone to fracture. Taking the hormone ...

Type II diabetes and breast cancer. Background: It is well known that estrogen contained in contraceptive pills has a relationship with the incidence of hormone-dependent cancers. Conversely, there ...

Estrogen is a group of hormones that the ovaries and, to a lesser degree, the adrenal glands, fat tissues, and testes produce. Medical researchers consider it a sex hormone because the reproductive ...

Increased estrogen level in mice weakens abdominal wall to cause hernia Inguinal hernia repair is most common surgery in men As men age, larger amount of testosterone is converted to estrogen. CHICAGO ...

Until about 20 years ago, physicians routinely prescribed the hormones estrogen and progestin for women after menopause, when levels of both of these hormones decline. This seemed like a logical ...