Description: "Until recently, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was widely used in menopausal women with epilepsy to alleviate their menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and vaginal dryness. Now, due to the Women's Health Initiative findings published in July 2002, showing an increased risk of breast cancer due to HRT, the use of HRT has been drastically curtailed. However, our study shows that even short-term use of HRT, which doctors still prescribe, poses a risk to women with epilepsy", said Cynthia Harden,M.D., Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, today at the 58th AES conference in New Orleans.