31.   Others have indicated concern over whether fat-soluble medications, including birth-control pills, hormone replacements and steroid treatments, may also be affected.

32.   Other women experience unpleasant side effects from hormone replacement or are simply uncomfortable with the idea of dosing their bodies with hormones that nature has turned off.

33.   Researchers found women who were taking hormone replacements or birth control pills did not have a higher rate of TMDs than women who did not use those medications.

34.   Researchers performed periodic evaluations of their cognitive skills and then correlated the findings to the use of hormone replacements.

35.   The new study showed that women with one or more risk factors for heart disease were likely to derive the greatest mortality benefit from hormone replacement.

36.   The researchers identified the two groups of women and then looked back at whether they had taken hormone replacement.

37.   The study compared four versions of levothyroxine, a hormone replacement given to about eight million Americans with underactive thyroids.

38.   Then there is hormone replacement, which a growing number of gynecologists believe should begin years before a woman ceases to have regular menstrual periods.

39.   They show next to no interest in mating, and the females cannot become pregnant without hormone replacement.

40.   Virtually all healthy women could live longer by taking hormone replacements after menopause, according to a study published by New England Medical Center doctors.