Your doctor may prescribe hormone therapy if you have late-stage cancer and sometimes if you have working ovaries and want to get pregnant. Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images Hormone therapy for ...

Prolactin is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland. High levels can affect sexual and reproductive health. They may result from medication use, health conditions, or prolactinomas. Prolactin plays ...

A prolactinoma is a benign pituitary tumor that makes the hormone prolactin. While these tumors aren’t life threatening, they can cause fertility challenges and vision problems. Most are treated with ...

Hot flashes, brain fog, mood swings, stubborn weight gain … many of us chalk these up to the unavoidable side effects of getting older. But what if they’re actually signs our bodies are missing ...

Bencivenga is the special projects manager at PharmedOut, a rational prescribing project at Georgetown University Medical Center. Fugh-Berman is a professor at GUMC and director of PharmedOut. If ...

Pituitary adenomas are tumors that start in your pituitary gland. They’re usually noncancerous and grow slowly. Prolactinomas are pituitary adenomas that secrete the hormone prolactin. Pituitary ...