Browsing: Women’s Hormone Health

2025 was the year menopause took the mic. It broke into prime-time TV, dominated social feeds, and showed up in congressional hearings, legislation, and HR manuals. And as hot flashes took center stage, so did women’s power

November 1, 2025 ByMaureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women’s Health Watch

On Nov. 10, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it will revise its labeling requirements for menopausal hormone therapy. This is a long overdue and major advance for women’s health

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Hormone therapies for menopause will no longer carry a black box warning about serious risks such as breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to remove the black box warning—its most serious alert for prescription medications—on menopause hormone therapy (MHT) products, social media influencers took a victory lap. Their posts suggested MHT is good for everything—heart, brain, bones, even reversing the signs of aging

Women’s health is having a moment. From social media feeds and most-shared podcasts to movies, TV and news headlines, conversations about breast cancer, menopause, hormone therapy and more are officially mainstream

Experts recommend starting hormone therapy before the age of 60 or within ten years of the start of menopause. MStudioImages/E+/Getty imageshide caption

Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal want to solve two hard problems: create a good-looking wearable and measure hormones to help women understand their health better

On Monday, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced that after 20 years, they were righting a medical wrong — what Makary has called “maybe one of the greatest screw-ups of modern medicine” — by pushing to remove the “black box”…