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Preliminary clinical trial shows great promise for new multiple sclerosis treatment

Female hormone estriol reduces relapse rate by nearly 50 percent, UCLA neurologist reports

A study conducted by Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, a UCLA neurologist, shows that combining estriol, a female hormone, with Copaxone, a medication currently used to treat multiple sclerosis, reduced the relapse rate of MS by nearly 50 percent with only one year of treatment. (more…)

Revisiting Sex and Intimacy after Cancer

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2012Healthcancer survivors, cognitive behavioral therapy, couples counseling, estrogen, hormonal changes, hot flash, intimacy after cancer, menopausal symptoms, sex

Two Yale doctors are using herbs, prescriptions, counseling and lifestyle advice to treat problems many women have been embarrassed to talk about—and improving their quality of life.

Noa Benjamini’s natural optimism didn’t flag when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. “I knew it was treatable,” she recalls. She was recovering from surgery when she got her first hot flash. “That’s when I cried,” she says. Suddenly Benjamini saw herself careening toward old age. “I thought I’d shrivel up,” she says. (more…)

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Preliminary clinical trial shows great promise for new multiple sclerosis treatment

Revisiting Sex and Intimacy after Cancer