Jury is out over HRT heart risks
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More research is needed over the safety of hormone replacement therapy, says an expert.
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Wyeth on Wednesday faced   accusations that one of its hormone replacement therapy (HRT)   drugs caused breast cancer in a 67-year-old woman as one of the   thousands of trials the drug maker is facing over the treatment   got underway.
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One of the nation's leading   cardiologists is calling for a sweeping study to evaluate the   risk of potentially fatal blood clots related to widely used   heart devices that treat blocked heart arteries.
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A mammogram may be less effective if a woman is on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), a new British study finds. Mammography&#39;s ability to detect and exclude
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More evidence that hormone replacement therapy could be harming the hearts of older women is published.
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NEW YORK  - Invasive breast cancer rates have fallen since the substantial decline in postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) occurred, even after a decline in breast cancer screening rates, according to findings published in the 5th Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Based on early studies, many physicians used to believe that HRT might be beneficial for reducing the risk of heart disease and bone fractures caused by osteoporosis (thinning of the bones) in addition to treating menopausal symptoms.
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The government's own preliminary evaluation of the diabetes pill Avandia confirms the heart risks reported in a study earlier this week and suggests that as many as 60,000 to 100,000 heart attacks might be linked to its use since it came on the market eight years ago, a leading member of Congress...
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Aug. 17, 2004 -- Using only a stress tests to screen for heart disease may not catch many people who have atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, and are at risk for heart attack or stroke.
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Five years after a landmark study scared millions of women off hormones for menopause symptoms, new research suggests the pills may offer some heart benefits for certain younger women who start taking them in their 50s. Women who took estrogen suffered less hardening of the arteries than those who took dummy pills, researchers reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
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About a quarter of US women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said on
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About a quarter of US women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said
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Drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open may increase the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, but there is no conclusive evidence that the devices boost the likelihood of having a heart attack or dying if used as recommended, an expert panel said yesterday.
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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About a quarter of the women who stopped taking hormones two years ago after a major study highlighted their risks have since resumed the treatment, health experts said.
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Severely clogged arteries, obesity and other factors caused a 68-year-old grandmother&#039;s heart attack &amp;#151; not her use of Vioxx, lawyers for the drug&#039;s maker told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in New Jersey&#039;s latest case over the withdrawn painkiller.
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