The FDA is removing the black box warning on estrogen therapy after two decades. Should it?
Women who want to use estrogen to treat menopause symptoms often face a difficult choice.
That’s because those hormone treatments contain a “black-box warning.”
The Food and Drug Administration uses black box warnings to indicate a medication has potentially life threatening side effects.
In the case of estrogen for menopause symptoms, an increased risk of endometrial cancer, cardiovascular disorders, dementia and breast cancer.
Well those warnings are going away.
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Tuesday’s election was the first time voters registered how they’re feeling since President Trump entered the White House.
And after Democratic candidates won marquee races in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City, the answer was clear: they are not happy with the party in power.
So what are the two major political parties taking away from this week?
NPR correspondents Domenico Montanaro and Tamara Keith break it down.
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Next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether the President can use a five decade old emergency powers act to shape the U.S. economy.
Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or AYEEPA, last spring when he imposed sweeping tariffs of at least 10 percent across all countries.
Wednesday, the nine justices heard oral arguments in the case. And however they decide it — the ruling could affect economic policy and presidential power for years to come.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a democrat, was at the Court and joined Consider This host Juana Summers to talk about the suit and the steps his state is taking to rein in the Trump administration.
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