When our review of the role of progesterone (PROG) in brain injury was published in Future Neurology in 2006, there was no clinically available treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). [1] This is ...

Giving progesterone to trauma victims shortly following brain injury may reduce the risk of death and the degree of disability and appears to be safe, according to results from the first clinical ...

The FDA removed safety warnings from several hormone drugs used to treat menopause symptoms. Here’s what you need to know about these treatments before your next doctor's appointment.

The neuroactive steroid hormone progesterone attenuates cocaine's abuse-related effects in women and in rodents under some conditions, but the effects of testosterone are unknown. We compared the ...

Progesterone supplements in the first trimester of pregnancy do not improve outcomes in women with a history of unexplained recurrent miscarriages, new research shows. The findings mark the end of a ...

Over 100 million women are on hormonal contraceptives. All of them contain some form of progesterone, either alone or in combination with estrogen. A study published on Sept. 15th in PLOS Pathogens ...

Treatment with a gel containing the hormone progesterone can cut the risk of premature births by more than 40 percent in women with short cervixes, according to an analysis released on Wednesday. The ...

A hormone therapy commonly used to prevent preterm births probably isn't effective, a new study reports. Doctors have been prescribing vaginal progesterone treatments to help at-risk pregnant women ...

(Reuters Health) - Giving progesterone to women with bleeding early in pregnancy doesn't prevent pregnancy loss, except among women who have had a previous miscarriage, according to a study of 4,153 ...

The past two decades have seen the failure of many Phase II and III clinical trials for moderate and severe TBI, despite the fact that over 130 different compounds had initially shown promise in ...