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Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has liberated women’s hormone therapy for menopause.
On Monday, he announced the removal of “black box” warnings placed on hormone therapy treatments for menopause. “For more than two decades, the American medical establishment turned its back on women,” he wrote in an X post. “Millions of women were told to fear the very therapy that could have given them strength, peace, and dignity through one of life’s most difficult transitions—menopause. That ends today.”
For more than two decades, the American medical establishment turned its back on women. Millions of women were told to fear the very therapy that could have given them strength, peace, and dignity through one of life’s most difficult transitions—menopause.
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) November 10, 2025
That ends today.
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Kennedy included a clip of a Fox News interview where he revealed that these treatments have been proven to reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart attack, alzheimers, bone fractures, depression, and cognitive decline.
According to the HHS press release on the subject, “Women have used HRT products for decades to relieve menopausal symptoms. However, their use plummeted in the early 2000s when the FDA applied boxed warnings following a Women’s Health Initiative study that found a statistically non-significant increase in the risk of breast cancer diagnosis. The average age of women in the study was 63 years — over a decade past the average age of a woman experiencing menopause — and study participants were given a hormone formulation no longer in common use.”
“For more than two decades, bad science and bureaucratic inertia have resulted in women and physicians having an incomplete view of HRT. We are returning to evidence-based medicine and giving women control over their health again,” Kennedy stated in the press release.
Hormone therapy involves increasing estrogen and progesterone levels in women, which decline as they age and enter menopause. Increasing these hormones throughout menopause can combat symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbances and bone loss.
The White House celebrated this medical triumph in a post on X, stating that the move is “LIBERATING women’s hormone replacement therapy!”