AVVO February 11, 2011 Drugmaker Pfizer Incorporated has agreed to settle more than 2,200 lawsuits filed against its Wyeth unit over its hormone replacement drug Prempro. A company spokesman told Bloomberg News that Pfizer will pay $330 million over claims that Prempro caused breast cancer. More than 6 million women reportedly took the drug, which Continue Reading …
Bio-identical hormone therapy raising flags
February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Timing of HRT Influences Breast Cancer Risk
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Uncertainty about estrogen alone
Medscape Today
Nick Mulcahy
January 31, 2011
January 31, 2011 — Breast cancer risk associated with combination hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is greater if the therapy is started soon after menopause, according to the results of the observational Million Women Study conducted in the United Kingdom.
Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Newsweek
January 24, 2011
If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol, then—after more study—it doesn’t. Hormone replacement reduces the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women, until a huge study finds that it doesn’t (and that it raises the risk of breast cancer to boot). Eating a big breakfast cuts your total daily calories, or not—as a study released last week finds. Yet even if biomedical research can be a fickle guide, we rely on it.
Healthbeat: Is your diet giving you a headache?
January 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Seacoast Online
Maine
January 16, 2011 2:00 AM
Survey research tells us that close to 100 percent of people experience a headache some time in their life. There are many types of headaches and therefore many causes. The most common is a tension-type headache (not surprising). Migraines represent about 13 percent of all headaches, with women three times more likely than men to get this form.
1991-2010 Enormous Scale of Pharma Criminal Fraud Settlements
December 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Alliance for Human Research Protection
Friday, 24 December 2010
From 1991-2000 qui tam law suits accounted for only 9% of settlements with the government. But from 2001-2010, qui tam settlements comprised 67% of the billions in payouts
A report by Public Citizen documents the enormous scale of pharmaceutical industry lawless activities during the past two decades–crimes that resulted in a minimum of $1 million in penalties paid to the government.
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