NEW ORLEANS — Testosterone replacement therapy may be of cardiovascular benefit in a sizable proportion of men with coronary heart disease Dr. Chris J. Malkin said at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Testosterone replacement reduced elevated levels of inflammatory cyto-kines in a group of men with CHD and symptomatic androgen deficiency [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Adding testosterone replacement therapy to treatment with sildenafil provided short-term improvements in erectile dysfunction in a study of 75 hypogonadal men who did not respond to sildenafil alone, Ridwan Shabsigh, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association. When 100 mg/day of the phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor sildenafil [...]

Krista Kotz, Ph.D., M.P.H. Kotz Health Policy Consulting, Orinda, California. Oct 2006, Vol. 15, No.8: 898 -908 Jeanne Leventhal Alexander, M.D. Kaiser Permanente Medical Group of Northern California Psychiatry, Women’s Health program, Oakland, California; Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California; Alexander Foundation for Women’s Health, a non-profit, Berkeley, California, [...]

By Glenn D. Braunstein Department of medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA, Room 2119 Plaza Level, North Tower, 8700 Beverly Blvd, los Angeles, CA 90048, USA Abstract: Androgens are directly secreted by the ovaries and adrenals in women, and androgen, precursors from there glands are converted in a variety [...]

Transdermal testosterone improved sexual function, depressed mood, and well-being in women who had undergone oophorectomy and hysterectomy, reported Dr. Jan. L. Shifren of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and associates. The 75 women, aged 31-56, were studied at nine clinical centers throughout the United States. All had undergone surgery 1-10 years previously, before natural menopause occurred. [...]