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Risk found by '02 hormone study challenged

Scientists: Drugs' tie to heart trouble was overestimated

By Stephen Smith
Globe Staff / April 4, 2007

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A 2002 study that led millions of women to throw out their hormone pills may have overestimated the dangers of that medication to women in their 50s, new research suggests. (Full article: 751 words)

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