News Tagged ‘HRT lawsuits

HRT ads built trust, but breast cancer diagnoses changed opinions

hrt pillsThe advertisements no longer blanket magazines or fill television screens, but the message cannot be deleted. Over the years, millions of women were told that estrogen loss during could be dangerous to their health, contributing to problems such as osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, tooth loss and blindness. It could also cause uncomfortable symptoms such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness and mood swings. The ads said was a nasty disease that could be eliminated by just taking a once-daily pill, a hormone replacement therapy () that would help women feel like women again.

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Judge orders WHI follow-up data be released to Wyeth

whi logo 100x100U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson Jr. has ordered scientific data collected by the Cancer Research Center since August 2005 as a follow up to a study on the effects of hormone replacement therapy () on postmenopausal women should be released to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals as it defends itself against numerous lawsuits over the safety of its meds.

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