Once again I am extremely lucky to have this article co-written by a senior graduate student who's an expert on how reproductive hormones act on the brain. Stephanie Koebele is completing her Ph.D.

Menopause brings a lot of change, and it’s normal to feel uncertain about what’s happening in your body. Two of the most important hormone players in this transition are estrogen and progesterone.

One of the first clues pathologists look for in tissue from a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient is the estrogen receptor, a nuclear protein that converts hormonal messages in the bloodstream into ...

An interview with Dr. Kimberly Allison from Stanford University School of Medicine and Dr. Antonio Wolff from Johns Hopkins University on "Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Testing in Breast Cancer ...

Dr. Rajita Patil talks about UCLA’s new, comprehensive approach to menopause care and why a generation of women missed out.

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that acts via an immune cell and points toward a different way of treating chronic pain. Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the ...

The hormonal changes we experience starting in perimenopause affect every major organ system in our body. Understanding these biological changes isn’t just important for managing symptoms — it’s ...

Your face can be a powerful window into your overall hormone health, revealing subtle signs of imbalances that might otherwise go unnoticed. Changes in hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, lips, and skin tone ...

In the early days of hormone replacement therapies, putting oestrogen and progesterone into face creams was very popular. By the 1930s, scientists had worked out that replacing declining hormone ...