In July 2002, the Women's Health Initiative study was published. I remember it all. I was in my office, and I had been prescribing transdermal 17ß‑estradiol and progesterone for a year already, based on the evidence. Many researchers found that women were not being prescribed the right type of hormone therapy. This is nothing new. It was even found to be safer.
When that study came in, everything really stopped overnight. All of a sudden, fear took hold. There was no more progress. It was a loss of collective memory. Really, what we knew, we no longer knew. That's what happened, and we're starting to, once again—