Hormone Therapy News

Among women with infertility, those using progesterone may have a higher risk for developing thyroid cancer compared with those who have never used progesterone, although the risk remains low, according to study results.

According to published results, female patients with estrogen deficiency and male patients with testosterone deficiency have “significantly” higher odds of rotator cuff repair compared with patients without a sex hormone deficiency.

During the past 2 decades, Endocrine Today has reported on the latest developments in hormone therapy for symptoms associated with menopause. For its 20th year, the publication is taking a look back.

The FDA has given final approval for an oral testosterone undecanoate therapy for men with a deficiency or absence of endogenous testosterone or hypogonadism, according to an industry press release.

Current evidence does not support dehydroepiandrosterone use to improve women’s menopausal symptoms, sexual health and overall well-being, and long-term use may lead to estrogenic adverse events, according to a review article.

Autoimmune treatments accounted for more than half of all specialty drug growth in 2021, according to a drug trend report released by CVS Health.

Postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy have a duodenal microbiome similar to younger women and a lower abundance of taxaassociated with cardiovascular disease risk compared with those not taking HT, researchers reported.

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology is opposing legislation to limit access to transgender care for adolescents and criminalize health care professionals providing transgender care for youths, according to a press release.

Histrelin implants are effective in sustaining pubertal suppression for more than 1 year in most transgender adolescents and children with central precocious puberty, according to study results published in Transgender Health.

AKI and chronic kidney disease prevalence is high among transgender patients, but this is rarely researched, according to a cross-sectional study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.