An old bias against hormone therapy is hurting Indian women
Bengaluru-based Preeta Dutta, a 50-year-old interior design stylist, is hoping she is finally in menopause, defined by doctors as starting one year after a person’s last period. Having struggled through a tough perimenopause, a transitional period during which stark hormonal changes, including withdrawal of oesterogen, occur, Dutta feels angry about the way several doctors dismissed …