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Hormone therapy for menopause has recently had a black box warning removed by the FDA, after the agency reexamined data originally prompting the warning and found it flawed. Wen Shen, a menopause expert at Johns Hopkins, says women still need …

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The FDA has recently removed black box warnings, indicating a medication is potentially risky, from hormone therapy for menopause. The warning was originally put on in 2003 after a study seemed to show increased risks for cardiovascular disease, breast cancer …

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If you’re a woman who’s experiencing a loss of libido, you may have been advised to take testosterone supplements, but Wen Shen, a menopause expert at Johns Hopkins, says wholesale embrace of hormone therapy isn’t for everyone, in spite of …

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Hormone therapy is not a panacea for everything that happens to a women transitioning through menopause, cautions Wen Shen, a menopause expert at Johns Hopkins. Now that the FDA has removed their black box warning from many forms of hormone …

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