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Menopause can usher in a host of disruptive symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats and sleep problems. Hormone therapy promises relief.But many women wonder about taking it. That’s because the treatment, the subject of a recent expert panel convened by the Food and Drug Administration, has long been shrouded in uncertainty.It was once used routinely. But in 2002, research testing …

Menopause can usher in a host of disruptive symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats and sleep problems. Hormone therapy promises relief. But many women wonder about taking it. That’s because the treatment, subject of a recent expert panel convened by the Food and Drug Administration, has long been shrouded in uncertainty. It was once used routinely. But in 2002, research …

Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D) is an unpleasant condition to live with, affecting millions of people worldwide. Now a new study has identified what could be a key trigger for the condition – a trigger which could be targeted by future treatments. An investigation on 108 people with and without IBS-D and related conditions has revealed a hormone called …

By ZOE HARDY, HEALTH REPORTER Published: 14:23, 7 August 2025 | Updated: 17:04, 7 August 2025 Doctors were left baffled by a rare condition that saw a 20-year-old woman experience multiple orgasms several times a day, leaving her constantly sexually aroused.  Far from being pleasurable, the unnamed woman said the disorder caused her intense distress and interfered with her work …

A toddler grew breasts and began experiencing signs of early puberty after she was accidentally exposed to her transgender father’s hormone therapy. The unnamed child, 3, was brought to doctors in Denmark after showing signs of extremely early puberty that had persisted for six months, including enlarged breasts and nipples and premature vaginal discharge.  Her father told physicians the pair had …

Treatments and best practices on when to prescribe hormone therapy and what medications to use have evolved in recent years. MStudioImages/E+/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption MStudioImages/E+/Getty Images When obstetrician JoAnn Pinkerton spoke on a Food and Drug Administration panel recently, she didn’t mince words. “Please stop harming women,” she said. Pinkerton argues that the FDA’s black box warning labels …

FDA panel backs menopausal hormone therapy  Axios F.D.A. Panelists Call for Removal of Warnings on Menopause Treatments  The New York Times FDA chief: HRT warning among ‘greatest mistakes of modern medicine’  NewsNation FDA Expert Panel on Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy for Women  fda.gov US could scrap health warnings on HRT  The Telegraph Source link

F.D.A. Panel to Reassess Hormone Therapy Warnings  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Using tirzepatide and menopause hormone therapy at the same time leads to increased weight loss in postmenopausal women with overweight or obesity compared to use of tirzepatide treatment alone, according to a study presented at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. “These data are the first to show the combined use of tirzepatide and menopause …