A brisk walk is as good as an aerobics class - Brisk walking is as good for the heart as vigorous exercise, according to figures from the ongoing Nurses' Health Study. ...

Cox-2 inhibitors - The COX (cyclooxygenase)-2 inhibitors, also known as ‘selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs’ (NSAIDs), have long been touted as being safer...

Weight loss can be bad for the bones in postmenopausal women. - ...

Health scares - It's measles, it's the flu, something nasty out there is trying to get you - The first chill winds of autumn have brought in the traditional round of health scares, courtesy of the various government agencies. First to come ro...

Hrt: after cancer, now dementia - After all its other bad press recently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for hormone replacement therapy. The large-scale US Women’s Health Initiativ...

The marketing of menopause - Until the 1960s, medicine was not much interested in the menopause. It was something which women patients were told they would simply have to put up w...

Hrt : heart studies "biased" - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may not be the great heart disease preventative that medicine has been championing after all. All postmenopausal wom...

It’s official: hrt won’t improve your life - Contrary to what medicine has always maintained, new data from the American Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) indicate that HRT do...