Thanks for posting the Menopause Society reply Dotty
Katejo - that was the first thing that popped into my mind - shortages! How did we all get to be so cynical I wonder
It seems a bit weird to me that as soon as menopause and all its issues start to get more airtime in the Houses of Parliaments and more and more "celebs" or high profile people talk about it taking up the cause, suddenly all the "hrt risk" stuff starts coming out of the woodwork AGAIN! Its not as if this stuff hasn't been rumbling around for years. The previous scare study of 10 years ago was largely discredited. Louise Newsom and an eminent cancer doctor did a podcast (I think that's what it was???) - the link is on here somewhere - talking about it in conjunction with this just published study if anyone's interested.
To be honest the study didn't tell me anything I didn't know already. It's just a question of weighing up the risk against the benefits and for me the benefits win hands down, but that's just me!