Estrogen replacement therapy

In medicine, estrogen replacement therapy is "the use of hormonal agents with estrogen-like activity in postmenopausal or other estrogen-deficient women to alleviate effects of hormone deficiency, such as vasomotor symptoms, dyspareunia, and progressive development of osteoporosis. This may also include the use of progestational agents in combination therapy."

Stopping estrogen replacement therapy is difficult.

The promotion of estrogen replacement therapy in scientific journals has been controversial due to the role of conflict of interests and ghost writing.


 * “You can't just put another name on the article, but you can plagiarize  the way we did when we  wrote papers in college. What you need to do is  give your potential  authors Karen's version of the article before the  author modified it.  Then have your authors modify it for publication  under their name.  Wyeth owns Karen's draft, not the final publication”.