Record #:

25726

Author(s):

Nair, Prashant

Abstract:

Thousands of postmenopausal women stopped taking hormone replacement drugs after a federally sponsored study found they were unsafe. However, epidemiologist Gerardo Heiss and his colleagues found that effects of the drugs were still present in women years later, and there is a lingering risk of breast cancer.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 1, Fall 2008, p40-41, por

Subject(s):

Women--Health and hygiene; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research