{"id":26640,"date":"2025-11-06T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:09:10","slug":"philadelphia-doctors-call-menopause-drug-elinzanetant-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26640\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia doctors call menopause drug elinzanetant promising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                        New treatment for menopause hot flashes and night sweats<\/p>\n<p>Women who experience menopause symptoms can have them briefly and temporarily, or for as long as a decade. They can be incredibly disruptive to sleep, mood, cognition, sexual health, physical health and daily productivity at work and in daily life, Clement said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hormone therapy injections or pills have been safe and effective in treating multiple menopause symptoms at once, but women who can\u2019t take these medications because of hormone-positive cancers, a history of blood clots or past strokes are left with fewer options.\n<\/p>\n<p>Antidepressant or anticonvulsant medications are alternative, <a href=\"https:\/\/menopause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/professional\/2023-nonhormone-therapy-position-statement.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nonhormonal drug options<\/a> sometimes used for menopause symptoms, but doctors say they\u2019re often not as effective.\n<\/p>\n<p>That makes the development of a new, nonhormonal drug significant, said OB-GYN Dr. Julia Switzer, program director of obstetrics and gynecology residency at Thomas Jefferson University.\n  <\/p>\n<p>It highlights a gap in care and the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/menopause-care-advocacy-new-jersey-bills\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">need for more<\/a> medications and treatments broadly for menopause, whether it\u2019s occurring naturally or after cancer and other medical conditions, she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really makes you feel like you can make your toolbox bigger and provide a treatment that would be effective for almost every patient that you see,\u201d Switzer said, \u201cwhich is really empowering as a physician and obviously for patients.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>For cancer survivors like Safrit, the new drug could be a helpful tool as they navigate a new reality.\n<\/p>\n<p>Before her diagnosis, Safrit said menopause seemed so far off, something she had plenty of time to figure out.\n<\/p>\n<p>But she quickly became her own advocate and researcher as she sought answers and relief to menopause symptoms following her cancer treatment.\n<\/p>\n<p>Safrit, who is now 47, runs a breast cancer support group in the Lehigh Valley and works with organizations like Living Beyond Breast Cancer to increase awareness about the long-term effects of survivorship, including menopause.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are afraid to talk about it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve always been an oversharer. I call it my superpower, because I overshare with people and all of a sudden, they feel comfortable and they\u2019re like, \u2018Well, you know, I guess I can tell you about these weird things that are happening in my body.\u2019 And it\u2019s helpful.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New treatment for menopause hot flashes and night sweats Women who experience menopause symptoms can have them briefly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,17457,17458,3426],"class_list":{"0":"post-26640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-fda","12":"tag-food-and-drug-administration","13":"tag-womens-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}