Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
- Estrogen Therapy Appears To Raise Kidney-Stone Risk
- Women who take estrogen and progestin hormones to ease symptoms of menopause face a risk of ANY type of cancer, even after they quit taking the pills, according to research revealed in March, 2008.
- FDA goes after compounding pharmacies that produce and market natural hormone replacement therapy, tells them to stop the marketing. (Of particular note is “FDA officials say their move against the pharmacies was in response to concerns raised by several health providers and consumer groups, as well as to a petition filed by the Wyeth pharmaceutical company.”) Aha! Pressure and big bucks works to stop the competition!
- HRT Linked to Ovarian Cancer Risk
- One in Four women of the 65% who stopped HRT after warnings in 2002 have gone BACK on HRT despite the dangers.
- Dementia and Stroke increase by up to 40% in women takin HRT
- Colon cancer links to taking HRT
- Estrogen Trial Shows More Stroke Risk (yet another trial)
- Hormones may increase asthma risk
- HRT may damage hearing
- Long-term HRT doubles breast cancer risk
- New data halts largest HRT trial – increased risks of invasive breast cancer and strokes caused by HRT
Antidepressants
- Antidepressants raise the risk of suicide in children and teen-agers with major depression
- Antidepressants hazardous to health care coverage
- Study links antidepressants to foetal brain damage
- Nauseating story about Eli Lilly and their stock despite people DYING on their meds
- Test subjects call Lilly screening process inadequate; participants had taken antidepressants previously and had even been suicidal, but they were still allowed into a study for a new antidepressant called duloxetine! A WOMAN KILLED HERSELF DURING THE STUDY.
- UK says may strengthen SSRI bleeding warnings
- An article about the fading out of the term “patient” to “medical consumer” by the pharmaceutical industry
- GlaxoSmithkline knew Paxil wasn’t effective but didn’t publish studies BECAUSE SALES COULD BE HURT, according to an internal memo.
- FDA is sued – Serzone linked to liver damage
