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A 77-year-old woman with hair loss had high testosterone and 17OH-progesterone levels, but no significant findings on imaging.

Transgender women can develop feminine traits and improve their quality of life through hormone therapy and surgery, but results vary and access to surgery can be limited.

Menopause often leads to lower sexual desire and discomfort during sex, but treatment should be personalized and only if it bothers the woman.

The study found that certain microRNAs are higher in the cells and lower in the fluid of women with a specific type of polycystic ovary syndrome, and one microRNA could potentially help diagnose the condition.

Androgen suppression therapy (AST) doesn't significantly lower bladder cancer risk, but using finasteride, a type of AST, might reduce it. AST decreases recurrence-free survival but doesn't affect overall survival or progression-free survival. More research is needed to understand AST's benefits.

Finasteride reduces dihydrotestosterone, increases testosterone, and may treat hirsutism in women.

A patient with untreated congenital adrenal hyperplasia had large benign tumors in her adrenal glands removed, improving her symptoms.

Testosterone therapy can improve sexual satisfaction and mood in surgically menopausal women when used with estrogen, but its long-term safety and effects on naturally menopausal and premenopausal women are unclear.

Estrogens can slow skin aging after menopause, but can't restore youthful skin.

Flutamide may slightly improve hair loss in women, but finasteride does not work.

Clomiphene citrate is a cheap and simple treatment for low testosterone that works as well as human chorionic gonadotropin, alone or combined, especially for men who want to keep their fertility.

The microstrip technique for hair transplantation is effective and discreet for patients needing fewer than 1500 grafts.

The traditional treatment was more effective than finasteride for androgenic alopecia.

Hair loss can occur as a side effect of certain breast cancer treatments, but minoxidil can help regrow hair.

The journal retracted an article due to inaccurate statistics and asked the authors to revise and resubmit it.

High levels of male hormones in women without tumors are linked to metabolic problems and can be treated with metformin.

Menopause causes significant changes in the vaginal introitus, but less so in the labia majora, which may lead to symptoms of vaginal atrophy.

The document concludes that blocking the internal pathways that create androgens might help treat cancers that depend on sex hormones.

Ovarian and stress hormones can change GABA A receptors through neurosteroids.

Medroxyprogesterone acetate is as effective as oral contraceptives for resuming ovulation in women with PCOS.

Effective treatments for excessive body hair in women include drugs that block androgens, sometimes combined with oral contraceptives.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery leads to fewer severe complications and better quality of life than immediate surgery in advanced ovarian cancer patients with high tumor load.

Non-invasive imaging helped diagnose a woman's severe hormone imbalance and diabetes, and medication successfully treated her condition.

Neurosteroid withdrawal increases α4 subunit expression in the hippocampus, which may relate to catamenial epilepsy in women.

Anastrozole can cause increased testosterone, leading to symptoms like hair growth and thinning.

The document recommends a multidisciplinary approach and experience sharing to advance facial feminization surgery as a medical field.

Estrogen therapy helped regrow hair in a bald man.