Your ideal option depends on your lifestyle and health needs — talk with your healthcare provider to find the best fit. Estrogen gel vs. patch — which is the ...

Oral therapy tied to increased cardiovascular risk but not for estrogen-sensitive cancers. HealthDay News — Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) patches carry lower cardiovascular risk than oral HRT ...

While you may be seeking wellness in GLP-1s and estrogen patches, menopause is quietly changing your beauty routine as well. From hair thinning and shedding, to dry skin with lines and wrinkles, ...

For women who have struggled with the symptoms of menopause but are fearful of taking risky hormone pills, there is at last a bit of hope. Hormone skin patches and gels, it seems, are far less likely ...

The study in the journal Menopause looked at health insurance claims of more than 50,000 women. Those who used estrogen patches were one-third less likely to develop blood clots in the legs or lungs.