Examines how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.
Provides a brief overview of the National Women's Health Network's perspective on the so-called "natural" hormones that are commonly recommended to women at menopause.
Examines the safety and efficacy of natural hormones most commonly promoted to women at menopause, including DHEA, estriol, melatonin, natural progesterone and ipriflavone.
National Network on Environment and Women's Health (NNEWH)
Media Type:
Paper
Author:
C. Day
Miriam Hawkins
Discusses the human endocrine system and the hormone oestrogen in its four types: that found naturally occurring in the human body, that synthesized for ingestion as medications, 'xeno' or foreign estrogens from modern industrial and household chemicals, and phytoestrogens from food plants. Focuses on the function of oestrogen in women's bodies and how we may get too much, and the wrong kind, for our own good.
Presents a new way of caring for women and their emotional well-being by taking into account life experiences, genetics, neurobiochemistry, reproductive biology, and psychology.
Review, Network Fall 2000: This book is dedicated to a new way of caring for women and their emotional well-being by taking into account life experiences, genetics, neurobiochemistry, reproductive biology, and psychology. Emphasis is placed on the Nurse Program, a plan of care for the brain, a major organ often ignored in matters of health an oversight that affects all aspects of well-being.
