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Hormone therapy for hot flashes tied to lower heart risk when started within 10 years of menopause
University of Pittsburgh and Virginia Commonwealth University researchers tracked 2,737 women with hot flashes for 20 years. Starting hormones went with a fifth fewer heart events, but the authors warn against taking them for the heart.
Sep 14, 2026
Earlier menopause tracked faster memory decline and an earlier Alzheimer's diagnosis
Menopause timing is treated as reproductive history and filed away. Following 2,603 older women, when it happened lined up with how quickly thinking declined decades later, most clearly after surgical menopause.
Sep 7, 2026
Preventive womb removal cost quality of life only in women who had not reached menopause
Surgery to prevent cancer in women at high inherited risk is offered on the assumption that the trade is worth it. Comparing 1,120 women found the cost concentrated entirely in one group.
Sep 7, 2026
Left-side breast radiotherapy raised heart risk only in women who already had three risk factors
Radiotherapy to the left breast puts the heart in the field, and modern technique was supposed to have solved it. Across 23,305 women, the residual harm turned out to sit almost entirely in one group.
Sep 6, 2026