1.   When women experience problems with their menstrual cycles, such as irregular periods, doctors often give them hormones.

2.   And the factory pork releases a lot of liquid in cooking because the animals have been given hormones to increase their weight through fluid retention.

3.   Giving hormones to athletes was illegal under the Communist regime, but the legal hurdles could prove more difficult as prosecutors move up the chain of command.

4.   Progestin counters that risk, which is why the hormones are given in combination.

5.   The four female newts were given hormones to release fertilized eggs before and just after Columbia launched.

6.   Then Breedlove took half those males and placed them in cages with female rats who were given hormones that made them continuously receptive to sex.

7.   They want to know why no one will give them hormones, she says.

8.   Three reports being published in the journal Science Friday describe the effects of giving the hormone to obese and normal mice.