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• n  the most powerful female hormone that occurs naturally; synthesized and used to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer

• He informed De Kruif that organic chemists had isolated and synthesized the essential product of the male sex glands (the female hormones, estradiol and estrone, had been .
• Phillips does not know why there was a change in the ratio of estradiol to testosterone in the heart attack victims, but his work has shown that the hormone imbalance is also .
• The results: after nine years the women who took a kind of estrogen called estradiol had about twice the breast-cancer rate of those who were not on replacement therapy.

• oestradiol

News & Articles

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• Sandoz US Announces Voluntary Nationwide Recall of One Lot of Estarylla
  Princeton, New Jersey, – Sandoz is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall to the retailer level of one lot of its Estarylla (norgestimate and ethinyl estradiol) tablets in the US, following a customer report of a placebo tablet present in a row of active tablets on one pack. Estarylla is indicated for the prevention of pregnancy in women who elect to use oral contraceptives as a method of ...
  July 3, 2013 - U. S. Food and Drug Administration