For more than 20 years, hormone therapy for menopause has carried a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration describing the medication’s risk of serious harms – namely, cancer, cardiovascular disease and possibly dementia.

On Nov. 10, 2025, the FDA announced that drugmakers should remove these “black box” safety warnings^[1].

The Conversation U.S. asked Genevieve Hofmann, a women’s health nurse practitioner^[2] at...

Hollywood legend Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home^[1] in February 2025. Hackman had been living with Alzheimer’s^[2] and depended on Arakawa as his full-time caregiver.

Disturbingly, postmortem data suggests that Arakawa died of complications from pulmonary Hantavirus^[3] several days before her husband passed. The discordant times of death point to a grim scenario: Hackman was left alone and...