Medicalizing a normal phase of women’s lives — menopause — for the purpose of selling drugs began decades ago, and it continues on relentlessly. To wit: according to extensive advertising by the drug company Noven, menopausal women will this month have access to “the first and only FDA-approved non-hormonal therapy for moderate to severe hot flashes associated with menopause.”
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Sources: Worst Pills, Best Pills Newsletter Articles, November 2013.