Study: Hormone Patch Safer Than Pill
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For women who have struggled with the symptoms of menopause but are fearful of taking hormone pills, there is a bit of hope. Hormone skin patches and gels, it seems, are far less likely than pills to cause blood clots. At least that was the finding from a recently published French study. The French researchers compared 271 women between the ages of 45 and 70.
