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NEWS ABOUT: hormone therapy

hormone therapy stories: 5 news summaries

Pharma Ghostwriters Penned Medical Papers on HRT

Drug firms may play bigger role than thought in medical lit

Aug 5, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ghostwriters funded by a drug firm were deeply involved in writing papers supporting therapies that helped the firm’s sales boom, court papers show. The 26 scientific papers, published in medical journals from 1998 to 2005, highlighted the benefits of hormone replacement therapy over the risks, a boon to Wyeth,... More »

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cancer • pharmaceutical companies • drug companies • pharma • medical research • lawsuit • Wyeth • side effects • hormone therapy

Combo Treatment Halves Prostate Death Rates: Study

Researchers say using radiation plus hormones should be worldwide practice

Dec 16, 08 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Using radiation therapy in combination with hormone treatment can double the survival rate of patients with advanced prostate cancer, a new European study finds. Of those men given only standard drugs, 24% died after 10 years, compared to less than 12% of those given both treatments. Combined treatment is already... More »

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cancer • prostate cancer • cancer research • radiation • oncology • radiology • hormone therapy

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Allowing Children to Choose Gender Is Slippery Slope

Parents' inclination to let children decide what's best raises all sorts of questions

Oct 17, 08 7:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - For parents raising boys who profess to be girls and vice versa, puberty blockers may seem a godsend, writes Hanna Rosin in a look at gender—and transgender children—in the Atlantic. Boys will emerge from their teens with no Adam's apple, girls will bypass menstruation, allowing them to live... More »

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hormones • transgender • gender identity disorder • hormone therapy • Atlantic Monthly

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Study pinpoints role of bullish hormone in boorish traders

Apr 15, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone... More »

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stock market • Wall Street • men • testosterone • hormones • bear market • bull market • masculinity • risky trading • medical study • hormone therapy

Medicare May Be Behind Prostate Treatment Move

After funding cut, more doctors used surgical castration over injection

Apr 7, 08 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Slashed Medicare reimbursement might have altered how doctors treat prostate cancer, pushing them to favor castration surgery over hormone therapy, USA Today reports. A study in the journal Cancer shows hormone-therapy injections jumped in the 1990s and early 2000s, while castration surgeries decreased. But when Medicare halved what it paid... More »

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prostate cancer • surgery • Medicare • doctor • urology • hormone therapy

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