Finally, 15 top medical organizations have come together to issue a statement of agreement regarding the benefits of hormone therapy for symptomatic menopausal women.

It's been 10 years since one of the most significant papers in women's health was published -- a study on the risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women.

The recent Pfizer jury award is sure to scare many women. Whether or not to take estrogen and or progesterone is a very personal decision that needs to be individualized.

Early in 2010 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer -- at age 35. With no family history of cancer, I sought the opinions of top doctors in Houston and New York on how to treat my diagnosis.

Once again we are returning to the question of whether menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases breast cancer risk.

Endometriosis is a disease that affects more than six million women in the United States alone.

In this past weekend's " New York Times Magazine, Cynthia Gorney, a journalist in her 50s, wrote a passionate essay about the suffering experienced by some women during the perimenopausal transition.

When we see Samantha squirting hormones on her arms in Sex and the City 2, we are watching drug dosing that is uncontrolled and dangerous.

Among 1,532 randomly selected men at three time periods between those years, there was a slow, steady decline in T levels -- even correcting for being over weight or smoking.

As the decade comes to a close, USA TODAY looks at some of the more newsworthy medical stories of the past 10 years....

Synthetic progestins are not the same as progesterone, and reporting on them as if they confer the same risks and benefits is absurd.

All women can reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by decreasing the intake of alcohol, avoiding obesity and with exercise starting at an early age.