Hormones

Corticosteroid therapy significantly reduces treatment failure in patients hospitalised with severe community acquired pneumonia who have high inflammatory response, a study has found.  

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1. Early menopausal hormone therapy shows no effect on atherosclerosis progressionEarly initiation of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) improves some markers of...  

A new study measured rises in levels of oxytocin - the 'love hormone' responsible for maternal bonding - in both dogs and owners when they gaze into each others eyes.  

Inexpensive tests could help prevent cardiovascular problems and early deathHighlights High parathyroid hormone levels and subsequent bone loss are...  

A review of two clinical trials that are a part of the Women's Health Initiative delves further into the association between hormone therapy and the risk of breast cancer.  

Pre-birth exposure to high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone has already been shown to confer evolutionary advantages for men: strength of sex drive, sperm count, cardiovascular...  

The Women's Health Initiative Studies, a large prospective study of lung cancer, found no strong associations between lung cancer risk and a wide range of reproductive history variables and only...  

Research has discovered a role for prolactin, the hormone that stimulates milk production in nursing mothers, in the bond between parents.  

An experimental drug rapidly shrinks most tumors in a mouse model of human breast cancer, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  

Using melatonin could provide more and better quality sleep compared to using an eye mask and earplugs in a simulated noisy and illuminated environment, according to research published in open...  

Currently under consideration as a heart failure treatment, new research shows that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra may work very differently in women than in men.  

Hormones may not protect women from heart disease or stroke after menopause, but when combined with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, they may help protect women from these killers, shows a...  

Among prescriptions filled for menopausal hormone therapy (HT) in the U.S., almost half now are custom-compounded 'bioidentical' hormones, according to analysis of a recent survey of nearly 500...