Women’s health has long been ignored by pharmaceutical research. Not only are they less often included in clinical trials, but many exclusive female conditions are either not or barely researched. One of those is menopause. A change that every woman will experience and that is characterised by a plethora of (unwelcome) symptoms: hot flashes, brain fog, metabolic and sleep changes…

So far, hormonal replacement therapy has been the first (and only) treatment for menopause. However, not all women can or want to undergo this treatment. This may change according to a new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association reporting on the (promising) results of two randomised clinical trials testing a new drug for treating menopausal hot flashes.

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