Postmenopausal women who experience bothersome hot flashes or night sweats may have an alternative treatment to estrogen. According to a new study, oral micronized progesterone relieves those symptoms ...

When our review of the role of progesterone (PROG) in brain injury was published in Future Neurology in 2006, there was no clinically available treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). [1] This is ...

Giving progesterone to trauma victims shortly following brain injury may reduce the risk of death and the degree of disability and appears to be safe, according to results from the first clinical ...

Six years ago observations were begun on the possible effectiveness of progesterone in women with these psychoses. At first no specific connection was observed between progesterone and remission of ...

The neuroactive steroid hormone progesterone attenuates cocaine's abuse-related effects in women and in rodents under some conditions, but the effects of testosterone are unknown. We compared the ...

Migraines are throbbing headaches often accompanied by nausea and increased sensitivity to light, sound and touch. Nearly 30 million Americans suffer from migraines, and almost 1 in 4 of them have at ...

Progesterone supplements in the first trimester of pregnancy do not improve outcomes in women with a history of unexplained recurrent miscarriages, new research shows. The findings mark the end of a ...

Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy can be a sign of an impending miscarriage. Doctors sometimes prescribe progesterone, a hormone essential to a healthy pregnancy, to prevent miscarriage. New research ...

Women who experience early pregnancy bleeding and have been through a previous miscarriage will be offered a progesterone-based treatment in a bid to prevent pregnancy loss, under newly updated NHS ...

A study designed to test the effectiveness of a controversial practice known as "abortion pill reversal" has been stopped early because of safety concerns. Researchers from the University of ...

The past two decades have seen the failure of many Phase II and III clinical trials for moderate and severe TBI, despite the fact that over 130 different compounds had initially shown promise in ...