Hormone therapy

In this article film-maker Laura Alper talks with interviewer Sue Kaiser about the challenges and changes she experiences while making her first women's health film. Laura Alper co-directed the film "Is it hot in here?" a film about women's experience of menopause.

This article covers hormone replacement therapy. Indicates the decision about whether to seek or to accept hormone therapy remains the crucial issue for most menopausal women. 

Examines how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Provides protocols and guidelines to assist endocrinologists, family physicians, and nurse practitioners whose patients may ask for feminizing/masculinizing medication.

Provides information for people in the female-to-male (FTM) spectrum who are considering taking testosterone.

Provides information for people in the male-to-female (MTF) spectrum who are considering taking hormones.

Provides information for trans people who have
already decided they want to take hormones, and are looking for information about how to get started.

Discusses the announcement the National Institute of Health made that one form of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Prempro, had been found to cause breast cancer in previously healthy women.

Examines how companies that make osteoporosis drugs and bone mineral density (BMD) testing equipment have drawn public attention to the problem of bone loss and fracture in older women.

Gives a brief overview of the National Women's Health Network's perspective on two types of alternative products promoted for women at menopause: herbs and phytoestrogens.