Health Minister Steve Edgington has announced the Northern Territory government will no longer fund puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormone treatments for children. He said the government's ...
Republicans are attacking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) – who is running for the U.S. Senate – with a fake artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video of her giving a boy “a ...
When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, scientists were ecstatic, but who would have thought they would find a source of happiness (quite literally) in these ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. The FDA is removing the black box warning on hormone ...
Genevieve Hofmann has participated in advisory boards with Astellis Pharma and Mayne Pharma. She is President-elect of the Board of Directors of National Association of Nurse Practitioner's in Women ...
A longevity drug for women, or a danger to their health? Menopausal hormone therapy has been touted as both and everything in between. The past week’s government announcement calling for the removal ...
Shilpa Gajarawala struggled with hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems and brain fog. But given her history of breast cancer, treating these menopausal symptoms with hormone therapy wasn’t an ...
On Monday, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced that after 20 years, they were righting a medical ...
Allison Aubrey is a Washington-based correspondent for NPR News, where her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She has reported extensively on the coronavirus pandemic ...