Articles related to HORMONAL HEALTH

A JCEM clinical guidance article outlines a two-criterion diagnostic standard for adolescent PCOS, requiring both persistent hyperandrogenism and menstrual irregularity, and frames adolescence as the critical window for metabolic and psychosocial risk stratification.

The American Thyroid Association released updated evidence-based recommendations for thyroid disease in preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum, incorporating new trial data on LT4 treatment thresholds, TPOAb management, and ATD safety that diverge meaningfully from 2017 guidance.

An international consensus involving more than 14,000 patients and health professionals renamed polycystic ovary syndrome to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) to reflect its endocrine and metabolic features.

“The FDA is failing women by denying access to a hormone their bodies naturally produce.” — Kelly Casperson, MD

“The pain may not correlate with the extent of the disease. A patient with severe endometriosis may report little pain while someone with little extent of disease may report much pain.”

Transdermal E2 was associated with improved performance on the episodic memory, whereas oral E2 was associated with improved performance on prospective memory compared with no MHT.