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Women search for alternatives to hormone-replacement therapy.
Byline: Judy Peres
WASHINGTON _ Anxious middle-aged women have abandoned hormone treatment in droves since July, when a major study showed the pills can cause heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer, and sales of popular medications have plummeted by as much as 55 percent.
Now many of the women are seeking other ways to handle the hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia and other symptoms of menopause that led them to hormones in the first place_and some are even making the tough call to go back on the pills.
The choices for women are complex, and many doctors are confused as well. Nearly 1,000 clinicians flocked to the National Institutes of Health last week seeking guidance from the country's top experts on what to tell patients.
According to those experts, the bottom line is: No healthy woman should be taking hormone-replacement therapy, or HRT, to ward off heart disease and other chronic conditions. The days of putting 50-year-old women on hormones for the rest of their lives are over.
Those suffering from menopausal symptoms should tough it out, change their behavior or try alternative medications, including antidepressants. If all else fails, they should take the lowest dose of HRT for the shortest time…
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