Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (2024 Revised and Updated Edition)

by Carol Tavris

In Making Sense of Science, Cornelia Dean, a science writer for the New York Times, dismissed the findings of the WHI as concisely as the little boy who announced that the emperor was naked: “The study enrolled women whose mean age was 63. In other words, they had been a decade or more past menopause. What the study demonstrated, it seemed, was