21.   In other studies hormone replacement has been found to confer health benefits by reducing the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis.

22.   In the end, Baldassano stood her ground on the diabetes study, but participated in the one on hormone replacement.

23.   It was commissioned by a major drug manufacturer, a leading maker of female hormone replacements.

24.   Last year, the American Heart Association said that women should not regard hormone replacement as a means of treating or preventing heart disease.

25.   Like Grady, Schiff said the strongest reason for using hormone replacement was to treat symptoms that a woman finds intolerable.

26.   Like antioxidants, another fashionable anti-aging intervention, hormone replacement, has a plausible rationale.

27.   Most of the data comes from studies involving the type of estrogen in the drug Premarin, the most widely used brand of hormone replacement in the United States.

28.   Nor do the hormone replacement regimens tested have adverse effects on how the body processes sugar.

29.   Observational studies have suggested many health benefits from hormone replacement, but more recent controlled trials have disagreed.

30.   One group received no hormone replacement, and all six became infected after SIV was squirted into their vaginas.