An increasing number of women who use estrogen patches to help deal with perimenopause and menopause symptoms have been scrambling to access their transdermal drug amid a nationwide shortage of the ...

There are other options for hormone therapy.

Estrogen patches, one of the most common forms of hormone therapy for women, are becoming harder to find, and some ...

As more women seek hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, the shortage of estrogen patches increases, forcing them to look for ...

Rising interest in hormone therapy for premenopause and menopause symptoms has led to estrogen patch shortages. Experts share strategies to try to find this medication or stretch out what you have.

For many women in the United States who encounter drenching night sweats, sudden hot flashes, debilitating exhaustion and other menopausal symptoms, small estradiol patches worn on the skin have ...

With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

It’s a sign of just how much attitudes about the patches, and about menopause, have changed. After a report in 2002 suggested that hormone therapy increased the risks of breast cancer and ...

Estrogen may help protect against hypertension in premenopause, a new study suggests, raising further questions about the role that hormone therapy may play in cardiovascular health later in life.

After 23 years, the FDA removed a major warning on estrogen therapy. Estrogen therapy carried a “black box” warning about ...

Women who previously had endometrial cancer and used vaginal estrogen therapy did not have higher risk for cancer recurrence than those who did not use vaginal hormone therapy, according to findings ...