If you’re approaching your 40s and looking to conceive, your doctor may have suggested a fertility test for women. These simple urine tests measure key hormone levels associated with ovulation and egg ...

Do you know what your hormone levels are? Should you? Your body is home to more than 50 hormones — chemical messengers that compose the endocrine system — and hormonal changes may reflect any number ...

Women have taken to social media to share their experiences using testosterone. When Grayson Smith, a 23-year-old woman from Texas, started feeling sluggish and tired in the afternoons, she said a ...

Share on Pinterest How does hormone therapy affect heart and metabolic health? Image credit: Santi Nuñez/Stocksy. Research presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society in Chicago has ...

After decades when menopausal women were steered away from hormone therapy due to breast cancer concerns, new evidence shows it may be right for some.

Concerns about hormone health have skyrocketed as we've discovered the pressure our synthetic world is putting on our bodies. Exposure to microplastics, LED light, polyester fabrics, and pesticides ...

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In 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician who has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay area for more than two decades, had just learned about a new blood test only available at select ...

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