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.

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 ...

Women who can’t get the menopause hormone therapy they need after years of shortages are cutting patches in half, leaving ...

There are other options for hormone therapy.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Women often use hormone therapy to relieve hot flashes and other menopause symptoms — and new research suggests patches or creams may be safer for their blood pressure than pills. As ...

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

As we ve reported several times, estrogen replacement therapy either with or without progesterone is currently the most effective means of treating menopausal symptoms. Now, a study just published in ...

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 ...

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