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’s commissioner, announced on Monday.
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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.
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Critics opposed to removing the warning, the strongest kind the F.D.A. issues, had urged Dr. Makary to convene a scientific advisory panel to carry out a careful assessment of the evidence before making any changes to the label.
“Removing the black box and putting warnings in a lengthy label that many doctors and most patients will not read is taking women’s health backward,” Diana Zuckerman, a scientist and president of the National Center for Health Research, said on Monday.
“The claim that hormones for menopause is the best way to improve the health of women is inconsistent with years of research and will harm millions of women,” Dr. Zuckerman said. “There are many better ways to reduce the chances of osteoporosis, heart disease, cancer and dementia than hormone therapy for menopause.”
Many of the articles I read do not mention those opposed to removing the warning nor do they mention the request to "convene a scientific advisory panel to carry out a careful assessment of the evidence before making any changes to the label."
How can we trust anything that comes out of this administration while the current Secretary of Health and Human Services (which includes the FDA, CDC, NIH, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) is a conspiracy theorist that doesn't believe in vaccines?
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..."hormone therapy is not recommended for preventing chronic diseases in older women, not that it is unsafe for treating symptoms in younger women."
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