{"id":31965,"date":"2025-07-17T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31965"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:28:56","slug":"f-d-a-panel-to-reassess-hormone-therapy-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31965","title":{"rendered":"F.D.A. Panel to Reassess Hormone Therapy Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Marty Makary, the agency\u2019s commissioner, has said too many women avoid menopause treatments because the risks have been overstated.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, will convene an expert panel on Thursday that he said will \u201cset the record straight\u201d about hormone therapy for menopause, a treatment that he champions despite mixed findings about its risks and benefits.<\/p>\n

Although there is no public agenda, the panel is expected to discuss whether the risks have been overstated, deterring women who might benefit.<\/p>\n

All menopause treatments containing the hormone estrogen carry a black box warning<\/a> that the medication should not be used to prevent cardiovascular disease or dementia, and that it increases the risk of strokes, blood clots and probable dementia.<\/p>\n

The label also warns of the possibility of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

But proponents like Dr. Makary say there\u2019s evidence that hormone therapy \u2014 approved for the treatment of symptoms like hot flashes \u2014 may prevent cognitive decline, heart disease and some cancers, in addition to conferring benefits that are not in dispute, like reducing osteoporosis-related fractures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Makary has dismissed findings of a heightened risk of breast cancer in women who took combined estrogen and progestin, saying the research caused a \u201cbreast cancer scare\u201d that has deterred women from getting a useful treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s probably no medication that improves the health outcomes of a population more than hormone replacement therapy for women who start it within 10 years of the onset of menopause,\u201d except perhaps antibiotics, Dr. Makary said on a podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Marty Makary, the agency\u2019s commissioner, has said too many women avoid menopause treatments because the risks have been overstated.Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, will convene an expert panel on Thursday that he said will \u201cset the record straight\u201d about hormone therapy for menopause, a treatment that he champions despite mixed findings about its risks and benefits.Although there is no public agenda, the panel is expected to discuss whether the risks have been overstated, deterring women who might benefit.All menopause treatments containing the hormone estrogen carry a black box warning that the medication should not be used to prevent cardiovascular disease or dementia, and that it increases the risk of strokes, blood clots and probable dementia.The label also warns of the possibility of breast cancer.But proponents like Dr. Makary say there\u2019s evidence that hormone therapy \u2014 approved for the treatment of symptoms like hot flashes \u2014 may prevent cognitive decline, heart disease and some cancers, in addition to conferring benefits that are not in dispute, like reducing osteoporosis-related fractures.Dr. Makary has dismissed findings of a heightened risk of breast cancer in women who took combined estrogen and progestin, saying the research caused a \u201cbreast cancer scare\u201d that has deterred women from getting a useful treatment.\u201cThere\u2019s probably no medication that improves the health outcomes of a population more than hormone replacement therapy for women who start it within 10 years of the onset of menopause,\u201d except perhaps antibiotics, Dr. Makary said on a podcast.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31967,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31968,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965\/revisions\/31968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}