The FDA Is Removing Misleading Breast Cancer Warning From Hormone Replace Therapies

@DrMakaryFDA on XListen, the past year has been pretty bleak when it comes to health policy changes actually backed up by science. But this week, the FDA is making a move menopause experts actually agree with and have been asking for for decades. On Monday, the FDA announced that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products will no longer carry black box warnings stating they cause increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. The label was added to these products in the early 2000s following the publication of the Women’s Health Initiative study, the results of which experts say we