Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found. This stops pain signals before they get to ...

The extent to which, and indeed how, exogenous hormone treatment affects brain structure and function is still a matter of debate; however, evidence is emerging that high doses of hormones induce ...

Giving one year of estrogen replacement to female athletes with exercise-induced menstrual irregularities improves drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction and uncontrolled eating, a new study finds.

The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday it would remove the black box warning on hormone replacement therapy for ...

Male-to-female (MtF) transgender persons have a greater increase in bone mineral density than female-to-male (FtM) persons in their first year of hormone treatment. The research helps scientists ...

CHICAGO — Cross-sex hormone treatment of transgender adults leads to very few long-term side effects, according to the authors of the largest study to date to examine this issue. More than 2000 ...