{"id":80462,"date":"2026-02-21T04:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/uk-clinical-trial-into-puberty-blockers-paused-after-medicines-regulator-raises-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:00:02","slug":"uk-clinical-trial-into-puberty-blockers-paused-after-medicines-regulator-raises-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/uk-clinical-trial-into-puberty-blockers-paused-after-medicines-regulator-raises-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK clinical trial into puberty blockers paused after medicines regulator raises concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/592d9592e01942ce2d80387db8e6aac438d0b01e\/0_1_5000_3998\/master\/5000.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=734a1d67d869dfc01401e33e37d6173b\" alt=\"UK clinical trial into puberty blockers paused after medicines regulator raises concerns\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">UK clinical trial into puberty blockers paused after medicines regulator raises concerns<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Study set to delay recruitment after warning participants should be a minimum of 14 years oldA clinical trial into puberty blockers for children has been paused after the medicines regulator warned it should have a minimum age limit of 14 because of the \u201cunquantified risk\u201d of \u201clong-term biological harms\u201d.Discussions between the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the trial sponsor, King\u2019s College London, will begin next week to discuss the wellbeing concerns, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said on Friday evening. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/feb\/20\/uk-clinical-trial-into-puberty-blockers-paused-after-medicines-regulator-raises-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts UK clinical trial into puberty blockers paused after medicines regulator raises concerns Study set to delay recruitment after warning participants should be a minimum of 14 years oldA clinical trial into puberty blockers for children has been paused after the medicines regulator warned it should have a minimum age limit of 14 because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":80463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}