The Program in Integrative Medicine is committed to providing a healing environment to patients using science-based orthomolecular and nutritional medicine.  The cornerstones of the program include:

• High quality research
• Outstanding education and training of medical students and physicians, and
• Comprehensive services by competent professionals in a clinical setting

Based at an academic medical center, this approach allows patients to work with all healthcare providers to develop a diagnostic and therapeutic regime appropriate for each individual.

Hormone Study: Seeking Menopausal Women

If you are a woman in the early years of menopause, you are invited to participate in a University of Kansas Medical Center study to determine if ‘natural’ or bioidentical hormones are safe and a benefit when used as a treatment.

Bioidentical hormones are hormones that match the hormones found in a woman’s body and are not changed chemically to a synthetic molecule in the laboratory during processing.

Physicians running this study will determine if you are in the first 7 years of menopause by your medical history and blood tests. If you qualify, you will be asked to participate.

The study is randomized (like picking a number out of a hat) into 1 to 4 groups. In one of the groups, subjects receive a standard type of hormone replacement. In each of the other three groups, subjects receive different types of bioidentical hormones.

You will not be told which group you are assigned to, nor will your doctor know that. Some of the pills you are given may be real hormones, while other pills are sugar pills containing no active ingredients (called placebos).

If you are currently taking hormone replacement therapy, you will be expected to stop for three months before you can enter into this study.

Study patients will receive no money for participating in the study. However, the cost of all tests and therapies that are considered part of the study will be covered.

If you are interested in participating in this study, or would like more information, please contact the University of Kansas Medical Center at 913-588-6104.