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...

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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...

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Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce addictive drinking. The enzyme responsible, KHK, appears to drive both alcohol cravings and liver injury. When this enzyme was blocked in mice, their drinking decreased and their livers showed far less damage.
Read more …Blocking one enzyme may break the link between alcohol and liver disease

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