Read more hormone therapy stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/28751/hormone-therapy.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:35:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/66132/pharma-ghostwriters-penned-medical-papers-on-hrt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGhostwriters funded by a drug firm were deeply involved in writing papers supporting therapies that helped the firm’s sales boom, court papers show. The 26 scientific papers, published in medical journals from 1998 to 2005, highlighted the benefits of hormone replacement therapy over the risks, a boon to Wyeth, which...http://www.newser.com/story/66132/pharma-ghostwriters-penned-medical-papers-on-hrt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 05 Aug 2009 7:20:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/45411/combo-treatment-halves-prostate-death-rates-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUsing radiation therapy in combination with hormone treatment can double the survival rate of patients with advanced prostate cancer, a new European study finds. Of those men given only standard drugs, 24% died after 10 years, compared to less than 12% of those given both treatments. Combined treatment is already...http://www.newser.com/story/45411/combo-treatment-halves-prostate-death-rates-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Dec 2008 6:45:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40063/allowing-children-to-choose-gender-is-slippery-slope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor parents raising boys who profess to be girls and vice versa, puberty blockers may seem a godsend, writes Hanna Rosin in a look at gender—and transgender children—in the Atlantic . Boys will emerge from their teens with no Adam's apple, girls will bypass menstruation, allowing them to live...http://www.newser.com/story/40063/allowing-children-to-choose-gender-is-slippery-slope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Oct 2008 19:43:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24484/volatile-market-hooked-on-testosterone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone...http://www.newser.com/story/24484/volatile-market-hooked-on-testosterone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 15 Apr 2008 4:25:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23663/medicare-may-be-behind-prostate-treatment-move.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSlashed Medicare reimbursement might have altered how doctors treat prostate cancer, pushing them to favor castration surgery over hormone therapy, USA Today reports. A study in the journal Cancer shows hormone-therapy injections jumped in the 1990s and early 2000s, while castration surgeries decreased. But when Medicare halved what it paid...http://www.newser.com/story/23663/medicare-may-be-behind-prostate-treatment-move.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 07 Apr 2008 11:40:20 CDT