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For years, women have endured hot flashes, mood swings and fatigue in the transition leading up to menopause. Previous studies had warned that treating these symptoms with hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, came with risks that outweighed its benefits, including cancer and cardiovascular disease

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Mira, the leading hormonal health company, today announced a new integration with ŌURA, maker of the world’s leading smart ring. The integration allows Mira users to view sleep, readiness, and temperature trends from ŌURA directly alongside their hormone data in the Mira app, revealing how hormonal changes influence how…

LAWRENCE — Researchers from the University of Kansas have shown a link between reproductive hormone exposure throughout life and brain health in 459 women aged 65 to 80. They discovered older women who had used hormonal birth control in young adulthood were more likely to have larger volumes in brain regions vital to memory, cognition…

Women are more than twice as likely as men to develop stress-related conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the biological mechanisms underlying that risk have remained poorly understood. New research from Emory University School of Medicine provides the first direct evidence in humans that the ovarian hormone estradiol plays a key role in…

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

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

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”…