Emily Padgett has spent months trying to get her hands on estrogen patches, bouncing between pharmacies, transferring prescriptions and switching brands three times. For a couple of anxious weeks in ...

For years, hormone therapy (HT) had earned a bad rep it just couldn’t shake. Many women who might have benefited never even considered the treatment, thrown off by the Food & Drug Administration's ...

This article originally appeared on Politifact. What does it mean when a warning label is removed from a medication after two decades? But the science wasn't so clear cut. The study that drove the ...

Researchers uncovered how estrogen subtly reshapes learning by strengthening dopamine reward signals in the brain. Rats learned faster when estrogen levels were high and struggled when the hormone’s ...

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.

The benefits of hormone replacement have been underappreciated, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency’s commissioner, said on Monday. Critics described evidence for the change as insufficient. By Roni Caryn ...

Their names are unknown but their pain is nonetheless evident. A user on Reddit, a social-media site, was “fairly close to being just another young man that killed himself because of depression”. On ...

Suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary youth jumped by as much as 72 percent from 2018 to 2022 in states that had recently passed laws to curtail their rights. And President Donald Trump ...

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a hormone that’s essential to our development. Most people produce enough HGH throughout their lifetime. But for those with a deficiency in growth hormone (or a few other ...

Spend more than 5 minutes on Instagram or TikTok – especially as a woman of a certain age – and you are likely to meet a fit, attractive person showing you what they ate today. It is usually a bowl of ...