Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has become a pivotal treatment for managing symptoms associated with hormonal imbalances, particularly during perimenopause and menopause. This article delves into the nuances of HRT, providing a thorough understanding of its benefits, types, and considerations. Discover how can help transform your midlife health journey.
What is Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Hormone Replacement Therapy is a medical treatment designed to supplement or replace hormones that are at lower levels due to aging, particularly during menopause. By restoring hormonal balance, HRT aims to alleviate symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings.
Why Consider Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Benefits of HRT
Symptom Relief: HRT is highly e…
Mohamed Fofanah
FREETOWN, Aug 27 2008 (IPS) – A barefoot girl watches expressionless as men clad in expensive suits and women in designer clothes make their way on foot to the Community Centre in Kroo Bay, Freetown. They are here to launch the first ever State of Human Rights Report for Sierra Leone; Zainab, 12, is in the midst of another day on the narrow, muddy streets of the area, selling groundnuts to help support her family.
Home for her is the warren of patchwork wood and tin dwellings that sits at the bottom of the west end of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown. The paths in Kroo Bay are of hardened dirt that turns to mud during the rainy season. There are no sewage pipes or water mains beneath them and they are too narrow for a car to travel.
Children bare t…
Helen Clark
HANOI, Nov 4 2009 (IPS) – Think of a world where rich nations did not fund what was popular but instead collaborated to solve the developing world s most pressing health needs.
Lawrence Gostin, an Associate Dean and Professor of Global Health at the Georgetown University Law Center, dreams of such a world. He wants to see developed countries, for instance, make available to the rest of the world life-saving vaccines and technologies at affordable prices instead of hoarding them to the detriment of the world s poor.
Speaking at the first International Conference on Realising the Rights to Health and Development for All, held in Hanoi from October 26 to 29, Professor Gostin argued for a new approach to meeting the world s health needs, calling it a Global Pl…
Abusers are often family members, making victims reluctant to report the violence. Credit: Boris Bartels/cc by 2.0
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2014 (IPS) – A veteran women s rights activist, Patricia Brownell was still taken aback by the prevalence of abuse against older women she discovered during dozens of conversations she and her colleagues had with victims.
They found that for every one official report of abuse made by agencies in New York State, there are 23 self-reports, with the abusers ranging from husbands, sons, daughters and other relatives to complete strangers.“In many cases, the victims did not want to talk about it. They felt guilty. They felt it was th…
Zoltán Kálmán is Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Rome-based UN agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP). He was President of the WFP Executive Board in 2018.
ROME, Aug 28 2019 (IPS) – The right to food is a universal human right. Yet, over 820 million people are going hungry, according the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2019). In addition, 2 billion people in the world are food insecure with great risk of malnutrition and poor health” 1.
Another report 2 describes the situation even more worrying: “At the global level, one person in three is malnourished today and one in two could be malnourished by 2030 i…