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2. The FDA Will Strip the Misleading Safety Warning From Hormone Therapy. Here's What This Means for You
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:43 PM
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fda-strip-misleading-safety-warning-224507519.html

The FDA Will Strip the Misleading Safety Warning From Hormone Therapy. Here’s What This Means for You

Erica Sloan
Mon, November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM PST

Much to the delight of ob-gyns long espousing the upsides of hormone therapy (a.k.a. hormone replacement therapy, or HRT) for menopause symptoms, the FDA announced today that HRT products will no longer have a “black box” warning. Originally added in 2003, the label calls out risks of conditions like breast cancer, heart attack, stroke, and dementia based on a large study called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)—it was stopped short in 2002 when researchers first spotted such potential for poor outcomes. But in the decades since, it’s been well-established that the data didn’t support the warning that followed.

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FACT SHEET: FDA Initiates Removal of "Black Box" Warnings from ...

TodayMenopausal hormone therapies, also commonly referred to as hormone replacement therapy or (HRT), are approved to provide relief from

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He's delirious again. Dave Bowman Monday #1
The FDA Will Strip the Misleading Safety Warning From Hormone Therapy. Here's What This Means for You cbabe Monday #2
Thanks a kennedy Monday #5
Wow, so it's the broken clock being correct twice a day type of thing AZJonnie Monday #3
Video: demmiblue Monday #4
OMG!!!!!! a kennedy Monday #6
Short version, a very BADLY designed study scared women away from life-saving Maru Kitteh Monday #7
I KNOW, my Dr only let me be on it for 5 years......I'M STILL HAVING HOT FLASHES AND NIGHT SWEATS!!! a kennedy Monday #9
You are likely still able to benefit. 75 is no longer an automatic no. Maru Kitteh Monday #10
I have actually sat and cried over the injustice done to your generation of women, Maru Kitteh Monday #11
You can get biologicals on Amazon now womanofthehills Monday #14
OTC bioidentical hormone creams are cosmetic ONLY, and will not raise systemic levels Maru Kitteh Monday #18
Bio-identical hormones are available now womanofthehills Monday #8
To split hairs, natural homones were *extracted* from livestock urine, ovaries/testes etc. where they were present. eppur_se_muova Monday #17
There was a study some fifty years ago that found that HRT increased the risk of breast cancer iemanja Monday #12
I know, back in the day, my female PA told me, nope, ya can only have these for the next year and then it's over. a kennedy Monday #13
What else biological hormones help with womanofthehills Monday #15
Shut up. No, sorry, when I say that it's like back in the day when it was popular......but damn. a kennedy Monday #16
Go for the patch! It's safer than oral estrogen and SO EASY to do. Changed my life. Maru Kitteh Monday #19
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