Last week’s EconTalk with Marty Makary featured several topics relevant to zombie medicine. One was a zombie’s return to the world of the living, with hormone replacement therapy for women not being as bad as we thought, particularly for preventing hot flashes in early menopause (before age 60). The other was the emergence of a new zombie: removing ovaries to prevent ovarian cancer when it is now thought that most ovarian cancers arise from the Fallopian tubes, not the ovaries themselves. I wouldn’t call it a full blown zombie just yet as there is an ongoing randomized controlled trial comparing the two approaches and who knows, its results may kill the old practice outright.