Some patients and doctors are calling on the FDA to formally recognize a shortage of the medications, saying the agency's shortage database does not reflect problems they are seeing at pharmacies.

Menopausal hormone therapy can help women suffering from hot flashes and other symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.

Women are struggling to fill estradiol patches after the FDA removed long-standing boxed warnings on menopause hormone therapy.

The uptick in demand for HRT comes shortly after the FDA removed their long-standing associated black box label warning.

Alexis Dunne always plans how to best treat her patients’ perimenopause and menopause symptoms. The Chicago-area physician wants to ensure that the hormone replacement therapy she prescribes helps ...

Elizabeth Borsting had been on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for a year and a half when she noticed her estrogen patch was missing from her bag of Costco prescriptions. “They told me, ‘Yeah, we’re ...

By Sriparna Roy Sept 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator said on Thursday it is working with all six manufacturers to increase the supply of estradiol transdermal patches, used to treat menopause ...

(CNN) — Emily Padgett has spent months trying to get her hands on estrogen patches, bouncing between pharmacies, transferring prescriptions and switching brands three times. For a couple of anxious ...

The good news here is that more women in perimenopause and menopause are getting the message about hormone therapy More women are using hormone replacement therapy during perimenopause and menopause.

They’re marketed like nicotine or estrogen patches. But it’s not clear whether vitamins or herbal extracts can be absorbed ...