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Article: Black Cohosh: The "Hot" Treatment for Hot Flashes.
- Article from:
- Alternative Therapies in Women's Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Black Cohosh: The Hot Treatment for Hot Flashes
By Melinda Ring, MD
The top prescription hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Prempro (medroxyprogesterone/conjugated estrogen), suffered a marked decline in popularity following the July 9, 2002, Womens Health Initiative (WHI) announcement that HRT increased the relative risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. The early halt to the Prempro arm of the WHI study dropped the number of Prempro prescriptions filled weekly from 379,581 to 211,249 in just the first two months..sup.1
This abrupt loss of confidence in HRT stimulated tremendous interest in the already fashionable field of natural ...