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A new Canadian-led trial finds a safer and equally effective alternative therapy for controlling hot flushes and night sweats. The study suggested that a old treatment derived from progesterone may be as effective as estrogen for quelling hot flushes.

Medroxyprogesterone, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone, was first made about 40 years ago, when progesterone itself was not available in an oral form – said Dr.Jerilynn Prior, professor of endocrinology and medicine at the University of B.C. and Vancouver Hospital.

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