The founder of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) has called for an independent review of all major publications from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), citing a dissonance between some of ...

Hormone therapy may actually help the heart in some respects for newly menopausal women, a randomized trial showed, although the impact on hard outcomes like stroke and breast cancer still remains to ...

WHI Global LLC, a portfolio company of RVE Partners, has acquired the assets of Springfield, Massachusetts-based Aerobond, a maker of composite structures and assemblies for aerospace and defense ...

Bethesda, MD - The estrogen-alone arm of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) has been stopped after almost seven years of follow-up because of an increased risk of stroke in the treatment group.

It started in 1992 with over $600 million worth of National Institutes of Health funding, 40 research centers, 161,000-plus study participants and big plans. Nearly 30 years later, the Women’s Health ...

When the federally-funded Women s Health Initiative (WHI) study was terminated prematurely, in 2002, it created a firestorm of both concern and controversy. When the federally-funded Women s Health ...

Chicago, IL - A trial comparing estrogen plus progestin with placebo as a primary prevention strategy for healthy postmenopausal womenpart of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI)has been stopped ...

A 2002 study showing that hormone replacement therapy raises the risk of heart disease and breast cancer -- scaring many women away from the drugs --was fundamentally flawed, according to new research ...

New research from Case Western Reserve University suggests that starting menopausal hormone therapy before menopause may improve long-term health outcomes without raising risks of heart attack, stroke ...

Over the course of the past week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) canceled funding, and then reversed course, for the long-running Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study. “It would’ve ...

UB has received a five-year extension of its involvement with the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a federally funded, groundbreaking study that has yielded major discoveries on chronic diseases that ...