Definitions of Menopause and Biological Actions of Sex Steroids -- Principles of Practice -- Medical Association Guidelines, post--2002/Women’s Health Initiative Findings -- Perimenopausal Symptoms: Hot Flushes and Night Sweats; Sleep Disturbances; Urogenital Discomfort; Sexual Libido Issues; Mood and Cognitive Changes -- Bio-identical Hormones: Compounded and Non-Compounded -- Transdermal Estrogen as Preferred Prescription for Perimenopausal Symptom Relief, and the Role of Progesterone -- The Significance of Hormone Routes of Administration -- Hormone Therapy: Individualizing Treatment Based Upon Perimenopausal Symptoms -- FAQ: HT Prescription.-Evaluation of Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding -- FAQ: Ending HT -- FAQ: HT and Other Conditions: Uterine Fibroids, Autoimmune Disease, Hypothyroidism and History of Breast Cancer -- History of HT Use: Controversies and Confusions -- The 2002 Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI): What Did It Prove or Disprove? Future Directions.

Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview on hormone replacement therapy, with a range of key features that differentiate it from other titles on the topic. This concise, handy title presents an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, acknowledging that sex hormones affect more than reproductive organs and hot flushes for a deeper understanding of how hormones function. The authors provide a breadth and depth of practical prescribing experience, including many helpful tables and algorithms as well as directions for prescribing hormone therapy in the most effective and safest ways possible.  Targeted and easy to read, Hormone Therapy: A Clinical Handbook offers all clinicians the state-of-the-art information they need to prescribe hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.