It looked more effective in women over 60 who adhered to the study medication.

On the fracture side, there was a 21 percent reduction in hip fracture in women over 60, and that's encouraging for women who prefer not to take medicine.

It's fairly arrogant to think you can stop a disease that takes 10 to 20 years to develop in seven years. We showed a strong relationship between serum vitamin D and colorectal cancer, and that may someday lead to more effective interventions.

As anticipated, when the young women in the current study were asked to select the agents who were most like them and who they most wanted to be like, they tended to pick young, female, attractive, and cool agents.

This extensive, well-conducted study shows that women who undergo hysterectomy with removal of both ovaries are more likely to have low sexual desire and also more likely to be distressed about this.

Applied to women, this lifetime study suggests that having an estrogen deficiency in the pre-menopausal years predicts a higher rate of heart disease after menopause, even when treated with hormone replacement therapy after menopause.