How a Generation of Women Was Misled About Hormone Therapy

The FDA’s removal of hormone therapy warnings after 23 years validates what many women suspected.
How a Generation of Women Was Misled About Hormone Therapy
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“Was I misled?”

That’s the question I hear most from my patients lately—asked with anger, exhaustion, and the quiet devastation of women who wonder whether they lost years of their lives to menopause symptoms they were told were untreatable.

Jingduan Yang
Jingduan Yang
M.D.
Dr. Jingduan Yang is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in integrative and traditional Chinese medicine. He developed the ACES Model of Health and Medicine and leads clinical, educational, and research initiatives. As a principal founder of the Northern School of Medicine and Health Sciences, he advances whole-person care grounded in science, ethics, and humanity.