Hormone Replacement Therapy After Menopause: What Women Need to Know

Confirming what a growing number of studies has shown, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government panel that periodically reviews the evidence on screening and other preventive treatments, recommended this week that postmenopausal women should not take hormone replacement therapy to prevent conditions such as heart disease, cancer or dementia.

Before 2002, doctors recommended that women use supplemental hormone treatments to restore levels of…