JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, chief, division of preventive medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and lead author of the study, “Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Long-term All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trials,” published in JAMA.
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