Browsing: Hormone

On New Year’s Day 2025, I took my first dose of HT. At first, the biggest change I noticed was…

For more than 20 years, menopausal hormone therapy carried the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) most serious safety notice:…

And it’s sooner than you think

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a major change in menopause treatment: It’s removing the black box…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is removing the black box safety warning from hormone therapies containing estrogen that…

Much to the delight of ob-gyns long espousing the upsides of hormone therapy (a.k.a. hormone replacement therapy, or HRT) for…

New findings presented at the Menopause Society’s 2025 Annual Meeting suggest that starting estrogen hormone therapy during perimenopause (the years…

Controversy and confusion have shrouded hormone replacement therapy (HRT)—which involves using estrogen to help alleviate menopause symptoms—since a flawed 2002…

Similar to monthly hormonal cycles that many cisgender women experience, cis men also experience hormone cycling with testosterone, a masculinizing…

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