The details: The patches' brand names weren't disclosed. The move follows a February 2026 action on six products, including Prometrium, Divigel and Estring, and 29 companies have submitted label changes since November 2025. The FDA said it isn't aware of an imminent risk of a nationwide patch shortage and that patch output has roughly doubled over 12 months. OTC vaginal estrogen would still require FDA approval.

Yes, but: No advisory committee met before the change, The Guardian reported. "The pendulum has swung from the far left to the far right," said Dr. Susan Reed of UW Medicine, adding, "Careful shared decision-making is even more important than before." Talk to your doctor.

The details: The guidance calls for assessing heart health before, during and after pregnancy, and says a history of preeclampsia stays relevant long after the postpartum visit. Heavy or irregular periods may be an early marker of PCOS, now renamed PMOS. Hot flashes and night sweats affect about 50% to 80% of women in perimenopause, and the roughly one-third with frequent, severe or persistent symptoms have been linked to higher cardiovascular risk. Published in Circulation.

Yes, but: Medical News Today's coverage didn't address hormone therapy. "Menstrual history, pregnancy history, and the menopause transition belong in our cardiovascular assessment," said Dr. Lala-Trindade of Mount Sinai.

The details: Participants took a brief cold shower partway through. Average levels of cytokines, the immune system's signaling proteins, changed little, though some tracked how much body temperature rose. "This may indicate that sauna bathing mobilizes additional white blood cells into the bloodstream from tissues," said researcher Ilkka Heinonen. Published in the journal Temperature.

Yes, but: The study measured one session, and the changes were short-lived. It didn't test whether regular sauna use lowers illness risk, and the cold shower means heat alone wasn't isolated. Sauna temperature, the sex breakdown and funding weren't reported in the summary.

Daylight and dementia. In 87,577 adults who wore wrist light sensors and were followed a median 8.1 years, average daytime light above 1,000 lux was linked to a 16% lower dementia risk; the authors said it doesn't show daylight prevents dementia. ScienceDaily

Wall squats and blood pressure. In a 100-person randomized trial in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, adults with systolic pressure of 120 to 140 who did four weeks of isometric wall-squat training and kept it up three times a week saw systolic pressure drop about 14 points by week 8; those who stopped lost the gains. ScienceDaily

Fiber and knee pain. In a 6-week, 117-person trial in Nutrients, a daily inulin fiber supplement and physio exercises each reduced knee osteoarthritis pain; the authors said fiber shouldn't replace exercise. ScienceDaily

Weight in your 20s and 30s. Among 6.3 million Korean adults aged 20 to 39 followed about 11 years, cancer incidence was 1.84% at normal weight vs. 2.62% with class II obesity, per Annals of Internal Medicine; women had the higher absolute risk. Healthline

Coffee creamer. NHANES data on 30,459 U.S. adults found coffee calories rose from 43 to 60 a day between 2003 and 2018 while volume held steady, driven largely by non-dairy creamer, per the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Healthline