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Press Releases: Northwest

August 2, 2002

Kaiser Permanente will hold additional forum on Hormone Replacement Therapy

PORTLAND, Ore. – By popular demand, Kaiser Permanente is offering an additional free community forum for women interested in learning more about recent findings in hormone replacement research. The additional forum will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at Interstate South Medical Office, 3500 N. Interstate Avenue in Portland.

Weekday forums, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., which will be held at the following Kaiser Permanente medical offices on the dates indicated:

Wednesday, Aug. 7
Tualatin Medical Office, 19185 SW 90th Avenue in Tualatin

Thursday, Aug. 8
Longview-Kelso Medical Office, 1230 7th Avenue in Longview

Monday, Aug. 12
Skyline Medical Office, 5125 Skyline Road South in Salem

Tuesday, Aug. 13
Rockwood Medical Office, 19500 SE Stark Street in east Portland

Wednesday, Aug. 14
Interstate Medical Office South, 3500 N Interstate Avenue in Portland

There is also one weekend forum from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 17 at Kaiser Permanente's Salmon Creek Medical Office, 14406 NE 20th Avenue in Vancouver.

To attend, please RSVP by calling Kaiser Permanente at 503-813-4388, Ore. for those outside the Portland calling area, toll free at 1-888-524-7378.

The forums will be led by Kaiser Permanente physicians, health care experts, and researchers at Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research who worked on the federal Women's Health Initiative. One arm of that multi-year study concluded this summer that when post-menopausal women with a uterus take the hormones estrogen and Progestin (an artificial form of progesterone) they increase their risk of heart disease and breast cancer.