Making sense of menopausal hormone therapy means understanding the benefits as well as the risks
- Written by Susan Davis, Chair of Women's Health, Monash University
Grappling with the pros and cons of menopausal hormone therapy can be confusing.From shutterstock.com
At menopause, a woman’s ovaries lose their reproductive function. Eggs are no longer released and the production of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone falls. It’s the lowered levels of oestrogen after menopause that gives rise to...