She argued in an op-ed piece in the New York Times in March that breast cancer was a greater risk to postmenopausal women than heart disease. This is an imaginative interpretation of the data, and she caught hell for it in the New Yorker in June. Using that logic, no one should ever be vaccinated. Preventive medicine requires perspective, living with small risks to prevent major health hazards. I fear that Dr. Love has lost her perspective.
Lifestyle changes are, indeed, preferable to drugs.
HRT reduces the risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, colon cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. And though it increases breast cancer incidence, it appears to reduce the risk of breast cancer death. Clearly, some women should not take HRT, including my wife, who has a personal history of breast cancer. But Dr. Love's blanket condemnation of the treatment takes healthy skepticism to an unhealthy extreme. With exploding profits, the gambling industry is investing in politics.