Posts Tagged hormone therapy
Women Be Wise: Avoid Compounded Hormone Therapy
Posted by Samantha Gluck in Aging in America, Women's Health Topics on September 21, 2011
Compounding pharmacies have received quite a bit of airtime lately–but they are nothing new. Before the modern mass production of drugs, individual pharmacists, chemists, or even herbalists compounded all medicines. The term, compounded, simply refers to drugs mixed by compounding pharmacists to create a unique medication. While numerous valid reasons exist for the compounding of […]
Testosterone Therapy for Women
Posted by Samantha Gluck in Women's Health Topics on February 1, 2011
Long associated only with male sexuality and development, a woman’s testosterone levels, in addition to other factors, affect her sexual responsiveness as well. Research shows that testosterone therapy boosts libido in women with diminished sexual drive and remedies a variety of other sexual dysfunctions in certain women. Although males produce far more testosterone than females, […]







