Dr. Mary Claire Haver was finishing her obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, when she overheard some professors whispering about a new study that appeared to link hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with an increased risk of adverse outcomes, including breast cancer. She remembers that day in 2002 vividly. Almost overnight, most doctors stopped prescribing HRT, blocking millions of women from access to one of the few medical treatments for menopause. “I had no idea that this memorable and momentous occasion would, years later, give me a new passion and purpose in my career,” Haver writes in her recent best-seller, The New Menopause.From her home in Galveston and her menopause clinic in nearby Friendswood, the ob-gyn, who turns 56…
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