{"id":36425,"date":"2025-11-10T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36425"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:39","slug":"f-d-a-will-remove-black-box-warnings-from-hormone-treatments-for-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36425","title":{"rendered":"F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The benefits of hormone replacement have been underappreciated, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency\u2019s commissioner, said on Monday. Critics described evidence for the change as insufficient.<\/p>\n

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The Food and Drug Administration will remove the so-called black box warning from all hormone replacement products containing estrogen, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency\u2019s commissioner, announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

The labels will be rewritten with age-specific guidance indicating that there are long-term health benefits if treatment is begun within 10 years of the onset of menopause.<\/p>\n

The changes, expected within six months, represent a radical turnabout in what women have been told about hormone replacement therapy.<\/p>\n

In 2003, large government-run clinical trials concluded that hormone pills did not protect against heart disease or dementia, and in fact raised the risk of blood clots and breast cancer. Medical guidelines since then have told women to use hormones only sparingly for menopausal symptoms like hot flashes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Makary, long a champion of the treatment, asserted on Monday that in fact hormones can reduce cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline, and can improve bone health in postmenopausal women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe long-term health benefits have been largely misunderstood,\u201d Dr. Makary said. \u201cHormone replacement therapy may improve the health outcomes of women at a population level more than any other intervention, arguably, with the exception of antibiotics or vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The benefits of hormone replacement have been underappreciated, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency\u2019s commissioner, said on Monday. Critics described evidence for the change as insufficient.The Food and Drug Administration will remove the so-called black box warning from all hormone replacement products containing estrogen, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency\u2019s commissioner, announced on Monday.The labels will be rewritten with age-specific guidance indicating that there are long-term health benefits if treatment is begun within 10 years of the onset of menopause.The changes, expected within six months, represent a radical turnabout in what women have been told about hormone replacement therapy.In 2003, large government-run clinical trials concluded that hormone pills did not protect against heart disease or dementia, and in fact raised the risk of blood clots and breast cancer. Medical guidelines since then have told women to use hormones only sparingly for menopausal symptoms like hot flashes.Dr. Makary, long a champion of the treatment, asserted on Monday that in fact hormones can reduce cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline, and can improve bone health in postmenopausal women.\u201cThe long-term health benefits have been largely misunderstood,\u201d Dr. Makary said. \u201cHormone replacement therapy may improve the health outcomes of women at a population level more than any other intervention, arguably, with the exception of antibiotics or vaccines.\u201dWe 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":36427,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36425","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=36425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36428,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36425\/revisions\/36428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}