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“I think the study itself is reassuring,” said James H.

Pickar, Wyeth’s assistant vice president of clinical research and development.

He said that menopause hormones “should not be used for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, but they continue to be valuable treatments for the relief of menopausal symptoms.” What is so surprising about the latest hormone news is where it comes from.

While hormone advocates have long criticized the findings of the WHI, the new Journal of Women’s Health report doesn’t come from the anti-WHI camp.

It’s co-written by Harvard Medical School researcher JoAnn Manson, who was also the lead author on the WHI report linking hormones with higher heart-attack risk.

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