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"'Tis But a Scratch": a generation of women has been deprived of hormone therapy

Menopause, the journal of the Menopause Society, published a scathing review of the WHI, whose misinterpreted data ground to a halt the prescribing of needed hormones to menopausal women.

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Deborah Copaken
Nov 30, 2023
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In today’s groundbreaking, critical review of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), Menopause, The Journal of the Menopause Society, examines the study’s widely publicized misinterpretation of their own data, which nearly ground to a halt the prescription of menopausal hormone treatment to women in the U.S. It’s a bombshell of an article every woman shou…

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