Fall alergies--are hormones making them worse I never had allergies growing up. Then, in my early to mid-40s, I suddenly began having significant seasonal allergies every spring. I remember thinking, why now? I had actually improved my diet and removed foods that I knew were contributing to gastrointestinal symptoms, yet my immune system seemed to be becoming more reactive, not less. Over the years, I began noticing the same pattern in many of my perimenopausal and menopausal patients. I also...

For years, women have been told that when it comes to menopausal hormone therapy, the numbers don't matter for bone and heart health. I think we need to rethink that. Medicine changes. Evidence evolves. And guidelines, by their nature, often move more slowly than the science. Menopause care is one of the clearest examples. After the Women's Health Initiative was released in 2002, hormone therapy went from being widely prescribed to something many women were frightened to take. The practical...

A newly published study in Cell identified a 14-protein inflammatory blood signature that predicted lung cancer risk more than five years before diagnosis. Researchers found that this signature was not coming from the tumor itself, but rather from an altered inflammatory environment in the lungs that existed long before cancer developed. Study:Cell Journal Publication: Plasma Signals of Lung Tumor Promotion for Molecular Cancer Prevention What I find most important about this study is not...