The Hormone Decision

I've been frustrated by the way the HRT issue has been handled, both by the media and the medical profession. The Hormone Decision is a pretty good treatment of how that happened. Now for the reservations: no good discussion of what "statistically significant" means; and insistence that a study that had, in my opinion, some deep ethical concerns from the outset, has told us a lot about the way hormones act in the post-menopausal female.

This book was recommended to a group of opinion leaders in gynecology by one of the recognized top gynecologists in the country. You can't go wrong with this objective explanation of what went wrong with the design of the Women's Health Initiative and the publication of its results.

Ever since '02, women have been avoiding HRT due to the exaggerated negative reporting in our media. As a gynecologist since 1977, I have always found that my patients who are taking replacement hormones are healthier, happier, and more youthful - with minimal dangerous side effects. What we now need is a double-blind, control study with younger (50-55) post-menopausal women. The explanation of how the WHI was conceived explains it all... Good reporting!!