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Press Release: SaneVax Inc Writes Open Letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services: Rescind Gardasil Approval

Leslie Carol Botha — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:11:05 +0000

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In the interest of public health and safety, Sane Vax Inc., appeals to the
Secretary of Health and Human services to request that FDA approval of Gardasil® be rescinded
due to lack of efficacy demonstrated during post-licensure monitoring.

By Norma Erickson, President
February 2, 2012

According to a recently published, industry-sponsored study conducted on 12,852 young women, HPV vaccination was found to reduce HPV-16 infections a mere 0.6% in vaccinated women versus unvaccinated women. At the same time, other high-risk (carcinogenic) HPV infections were diagnosed in vaccinated women 2.6% to 6.2% more frequently than in the unvaccinated women. The increased rate of infections caused by carcinogenic HPV types other than those targeted by Gardasil^® in vaccinated women is 4 to 10 times higher than the reduction in HPV 16/18 infections.^[1]

These statistics are not exactly encouraging when it comes to demonstrating efficacy for Gardasil^®. In fact, quite the opposite – these figures seem to indicate that women who receive Gardasil^® may indeed increase their risk of developing cervical cancer from high-risk HPV types that are not targeted by the vaccine.

Medical consumers cannot afford to take the chance of increasing their risk of contracting a disease that has been virtually eradicated by good gynecological care in the United States (cervical cancer) by taking a series of HPV vaccines and hoping they will find out decades later the vaccine worked. It is certainly not a risk children should have to take.

Armed with the knowledge that any drug approved under the FDA’s accelerated approval process using a surrogate endpoint, such as Gardasil^®, requires post-marketing studies “to verify and describe the drugs clinical benefit and to resolve remaining uncertainty as to the relation of the surrogate endpoint upon which approval was based to clinical benefit…[2],” the SaneVax Team felt compelled to appeal to the person in charge of FDA/CDC oversight, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services.

On 31 January 2012, SaneVax Inc. sent an open letter to Ms Sebelius[3] asking her to rescind approval for Gardasil^® based on the lack of efficacy demonstrated in the ATHENA study referenced above.

If the Department of Health and Human Services is truly interested in public health and safety, they will do the right thing and rescind Gardasil^® approval until the manufacturer can provide scientifically sound data proving this new drug is actually effective.

In the meantime, medical consumers around the globe have a choice. Is poke and hope good enough for you and your children? Or, are you going to demand scientific proof of efficacy before submitting to HPV vaccination?

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Scientists admit non-stick cookware and fluorine compounds cause vaccines to fail

Leslie Carol Botha — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:54:33 +0000

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Well, talk about the pot calling the kettle black…. LB

Natural News

Sunday, January 29, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

Many consumer and industrial products contain perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which are highly-persistent organofluorine compounds that make certain materials oil, water, and stain resistant. But according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, PFCs in non-stick cookware, clothing, furniture, and food packaging appear to be responsible for causing vaccines to fail as well, as they can reduce antibody concentrations to levels below what is considered effective for warding off disease.

Philippe Grandjean, MD, DMSc, from the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues evaluated 656 children born at the National Hospital in the Faroe Islands, a country located in the Norwegian Sea, between 1999 and 2001. This study location was considered ideal because people living in the region consume lots of fish, which is closely associated with high intake of PFCs.

The team measured blood serum levels of antibodies for tetanus and diphtheria toxoids in the children at ages five and seven, and compared these levels to those of various PFCs. Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) were found to be in the highest concentrations compared to all other PFCs, and were directly associated with lowered antibody counts.

A two-fold increase in PFOS exposure among five-year-old children, for instance, was associated with a 39 percent reduction in anti-diphtheria antibody concentration. And in seven-year-old children, a two-fold increase in PFOA exposure was associated with a 36 percent and 25 percent reduction, respectively, for tetanus and diphtheria antibodies.

“The perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are highly persistent and cause contamination of drinking water, food, and food chains,” wrote the authors. “If the associations are causal, the clinical importance of our findings is therefore that PFC exposure may increase a child’s risk for not being protected against diphtheria and tetanus, despite a full schedule of vaccinations.”

PFCs are everywhere, as evidenced by a 2004 US government study which found the chemicals in a shocking 98 percent of blood samples taken from a large pool of Americans. So if the chemicals really do inactivate vaccine potential by disabling antibodies, then vaccines may have been shown once again to be medically useless for most Americans.

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Study shows estrogen works in the brain to keep weight in check

Leslie Carol Botha — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:50:05 +0000

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Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Deborah Clegg

DALLAS – Oct. 20, 2011 – A recent UT Southwestern Medical Center study found that estrogen regulates energy expenditure, appetite and body weight, while insufficient estrogen receptors in specific parts of the brain may lead to obesity.

“Estrogen has a profound effect on metabolism,” said Dr. Deborah Clegg, associate professor of internal medicine and senior author of the study published Oct. 5 in Cell Metabolism. “We hadn’t previously thought of sex hormones as being critical regulators of food intake and body weight.”

The mouse study is the first to show that estrogen, acting through two hypothalamic neural centers in the brain, keeps female body weight in check by regulating hunger and energy expenditure. Female mice lacking estrogen receptor alpha – a molecule that sends estrogen signals to neurons – in those parts of the brain became obese and developed related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Similar results were not seen in male mice, although researchers suspect other unknown estrogen receptor sites in the brain play a similar role in regulating metabolism for males as well.

Estrogen receptors are located throughout the body, but researchers found two specific populations of estrogen receptors that appear to regulate energy balance for female mice.

The findings are potentially important for millions of postmenopausal women, many of whom have decided against hormonal replacement therapy. The study could lead to new hormonal replacement therapies in which estrogen is delivered to specific parts of the brain that regulate body weight, thereby avoiding the risks associated with full-body estrogen delivery, such as breast cancer and stroke.

Doctors stopped routinely recommending long-term estrogen therapy for menopausal women in 2002 when a Women’s Health Initiative study showed the hormone also led to increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

“The role of estrogen in postmenopausal women continues to remain uncertain,” Dr. Clegg said. “Current research is focused on the timing and the type of estrogen supplementation that would be most beneficial to women. Our findings further support a role for estrogens in regulating body weight and energy expenditure, suggesting a benefit of estrogen supplementation in postmenopausal women.”

Thousands of women at risk from DES

Leslie Carol Botha — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:00:22 +0000

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The Independent

Thousands of women at risk from ‘silent Thalidomide’

A drug intended to prevent miscarriage is blamed for causing cancer in the daughters – and possibly even granddaughters – of women who took it decades ago.

By Sarah Morrison and Jaymi McCann

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Tens of thousands of British families are to be asked if they are victims of a drug given to pregnant women which can cause fatal illness in the second, and possibly even third, generations. Some women given the drug in this country have already obtained compensation in America.

Diethylstilboestrol (DES), a drug given to women for 30 years up to 1973, has been found to cause a rare form of vaginal and cervical cancer in some of the daughters of the women who took it, as well as fertility problems. Compensation of an estimated $1.5bn has been paid out in the US. There is even a suspicion that DES – known as the “silent Thalidomide” – can affect the grandchildren of those who took it.

Legal action against the 14 different drug companies that sold and promoted DES from the early 1940s to 1970s is being brought by at least 80 women in the US, who all believe that the synthetic form of oestrogen, given to their mothers in an effort to reduce miscarriages, caused them to develop breast cancer years later. Their lawyer, Aaron Levine, will travel to the UK in two weeks’ time to co-ordinate a hunt for the “DES daughters” in this country who have been unable to get compensation in British courts.

The saga surrounding DES, developed in England in 1938, began when it was prescribed to millions of women in the US, Australia and Europe, despite the fact that research published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology in 1953 revealed that women receiving it suffered a higher rate of miscarriage. In 1971, the US Food and Drug Administration told doctors to stop prescribing DES when it was discovered that one in 1,000 daughters of women who had taken it developed a rare form of vaginal and cervical cancer, known as clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCAC).

Mr Levine, a Washington DC lawyer who is representing all 80 women in the US, told The Independent on Sunday that the prescription of the controversial drug was “quackery”. “It never worked. It was like leeches or bleeding or copper rings,” he said. “It didn’t do anything positive for anyone, and didn’t help anyone’s pregnancy. What is striking is that it was banned in 1971 here [in the US], but that it continued to be sold years later in the UK.”

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Monsanto Land was Poisoned and the Barren Women Cried.

Leslie Carol Botha — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:59:16 +0000

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Blott R

First posted: Monday, 16 January, 2012 – 16:17

Last updated: Tuesday, 17 January, 2012 – 08:57

Human Fertility Today Scores Less than 50% of Levels 20 years ago
So what has changed in our environment to affect mankind’s fertility in such a drastic manner, and please, be assured that this is a presently occurring catastrophe.

I follow a guy called Dr.Mercola,(USA) who has one of the world’s leading natural health websites.He recently had an interview with Dr.Huber,who is an expert in an area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) foods.His specific areas of training include soil bourne diseases, microbial ecology, and host-parasite relationships.Dr. Huber also taught plant pathology, soil microbiology, and micro-ecological interactions, as a staff Professor at Purdue University for 35 years, eminently expert and qualified.

The major danger of genetically engineered foods may be related to the increased use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s weed killer Glyphosate,the most common weed killer in the US and just happens to be more toxic than DDT. Roundup, can accumulate and persist in the soil for years, where it kills off beneficial microbes and stimulates virulence of pathogens. Organic farms, are not doused with Glyphosate and therefore the plants are not prone to disease and retain all the nutrients as nature intended.

India has already suffered with thousands of suicides, democracy, like gold and silver, is in the hands of the 1.2 billion “ghandis” the government will never be able to subjugate or control.In India, this experiment has had catastrophic results with thousands of suicides as the farmers soon get in debt with the seed companies. GM seeds do not propagate, therefore have to be bought every year, coupled with failing crops, the poor Indian farmer had to save his honour by drinking poison and killing himself.

India is at the forefront of the battle against GM giant Monsanto with bio-piracy charges as the company used a local brinjal plant to genetically modify, an attempt to patent a staple of the Indian diet.These people cannot patent nature, but they sure are trying and they must be stopped.Also recently India postponed plans to allow in Walmart and Tesco India, the master recyclers of the planet, truly inspirational, even those in abject poverty have an inventiveness and vitality for life.

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A True Help for the Cervical Dysplasia

Leslie Carol Botha — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:24:18 +0000

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Pap 101

by Elizabeth Smith, M.D.

Natural Hormone Treatment of Cervical Dysplasia

Previously, scientists had thought that cervical cancer was linked to sexual promiscuity and/or certain varieties of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Now, researchers believe that birth control pills are causing cervical cancer. Cervical dysplasia, is abnormal cells found on the cervix. If the cervical dysplasia is not caused by infection or physically traumatic sex, cervical dysplasia is precancerous (cervical dysplasia leads to cervical cancer). Cervical cancer is now believed to be caused by excess synthetic estrogen in the form of birth control pills. However, of the 85,000 chemicals in use in the United States, some of these chemicals are hormonally active and happen to be estrogenic. These synthetic chemicals in every day life mimic estrogen (xenoestrogens) and also may cause cervical dysplasia.

John Lee, MD, the guru of Natural Progesterone has successfully reversed cervical dysplasia back to normal by giving Natural Progesterone and folic acid (a type of B vitamin). Birth Control Pills cause a folic acid deficiency. He used this same method to reverse cervical dysplasia in his daughter in three cycles.

In the study, commissioned by the World Health Organization, researchers combined the data from 28 studies, involving 12,500 women with cervical cancer from a number of countries including the United Kingdom and United States. Dr. Amy Berrington from the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, said the research showed that the longer women used the pill the greater their risk of developing cervical cancer, and the effect remained even when other risk factors for the disease such as infection with the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) were taken into account. This runs contrary to the theory that the increased risk of cervical cancer among women taking contraceptives was likely due to exposure to the virus, rather than the pill itself.

They found that women who used the pill for five years or less had a 10 per cent increased risk of cervical cancer when compared with women who had never taken it. This increased risk rose to 60 per cent with five to nine years of use and doubled with 10 years of use or over. Read about it here.

Ranchers also give synthetic estrogen to cattle, and farmers give synthetic estrogen to chicken with the full knowledge that the estrogen will cause the animal to grow and mature faster. Now, Time magazine has cited the landmark study of 17,000 girls aged 8. 15% of these girls are going through early puberty and sprouting breast buds and pubic hair. The Time magazine cover story, October 30, 2000, cites that some chemicals mimic estrogen (xenoestrogen) and blames these chemicals for the early growth spurt of girls and early puberty. The Time magazine article believes that everyday chemicals that we use in our homes act like estrogen. These estrogenic chemicals (xenoestrogens) are to blamed for early sexual maturity in girls in the United States.

Could these same chemicals that act like estrogen (xenoestrogens) be also causing cervical cancer? Many researchers now believe that these xenoestrogens that are causing early sexual maturity in girls. Xenoestrogens are also believed to be causing cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer.

Mainstream medicine readily acknowledges that excess estrogen causes endometrial (uterine) cancer and most breast cancers. The incidence of breast cancer in the 1950′s was 1 out 20 women in the USA. The incidence of breast cancer in 1988 was 1 out of 11 women in the USA. The incidence of breast cancer in 2001 was 1 out of 8 women in the USA. As of 2003, some parts of California have a breast cancer incidence of 1 out of 7. Could xenoestrogens play a contributory role in the increase in incidence in these estrogen sensitive cancers? Many researchers suspect that these xenoestrogens are contributing to breast cancer and endometrial cancer. Researchers are now trying to find an environmental cause for a breast cancer cluster in Long Island, New York.

In general, estrogen and progesterone oppose each other. Estrogen tells the cells to multiply and proliferate. Estrogen slows down the body metabolism (body temperature is typically 97F), and builds up fat (around the hips) in preparation for the pregnancy. In contrast, Natural Progesterone maintains the pregnancy. Natural Progesterone tells the cells to mature, differentiate and NOT to multiply. It tells the body to use the fat. Under Natural Progesterone stimulation the fat is burned up and reduced.

The strategy to get rid of cervical dysplasia is to get rid of the xenoestrogens in your life, take B vitamins AND take Natural Progesterone. Taking an easily absorbable DIM will also help lower your estradiol levels. These xenoestrogens mimic estrogen and cause bloating and cyclical breast tenderness. Get rid of the chemicals that mimic estrogen (xenoestrogens) and bloating and cyclical breast tenderness stops. These xenoestrogens are fat soluble and are stored in the body fat. Sometimes it takes years to get rid of these chemicals out of the body fat. However, the elimination of these fat soluble xenoestrogens may be speeded up by sauna and exercise that heats up the body so you sweat. Taking Natural Progesterone in the mean time will oppose estrogen and make you feel better reducing or eliminating the bloating and cyclical breast tenderness.

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Single Payer Health Insurance Advocate to be interviewed on KRFC FM Fort Collins

Leslie Carol Botha — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:10:52 +0000

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SaneVax announces Vice President of Public Relations, Leslie Carol Botha, to interview Dr. Margaret Flowers on community radio station KRFC FM 88.9 Fort Collins, CO.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 15, 2011 – The one-hour show will air on Monday July 18 from 6 to 7 pm MST and will be audio streamed at http://krfcfm.org. Dr. Flowers will be addressing the need for a publicly financed single-payer health system, otherwise known as ‘an improved Medicare for all.’

Women’s Health talk show host, Leslie Carol Botha will be interviewing Flowers on her radio segment titled ‘Holy Hormones Honey- The Greatest Story Never Told.’

Flowers’ is a congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, a nonprofit research and education organization consisting of health professionals and students who support a single-payer national health insurance model. The former director of the pediatric hospital program and chief of pediatrics at a rural Maryland hospital, she left practice in 2007 to work full-time on health care reform.

The reason Dr. Margaret Flowers works to advocate a universal, single-payer health care model, is because she wasn’t able to provide the quality of care she wanted to as a pediatrician. Flowers said she was pressured to see more patients in less time, and had to compromise her integrity by not being fully honest to insurance companies about patient problems.

Flowers feels that corporate influences from insurance companies have made it difficult for citizens to get the care they need. She said 51 million Americans have no insurance, and over 10 million became ‘under-insured’

in 2009. According to Flowers health ‘administrators’ have grown faster than physicians in health ‘care’ in this country. She added that currently, one-third of health care dollars is spent on things that don’t have anything to do with health care.“We’re already spending enough money to provide quality care to everyone,” she said. “We’re spending more per person, per year dollar, than any other nation. But we’re not getting a very good value for our dollar.”Flowers said the single-payer system would free up more than $400 billion per year, allowing all Americans access to quality coverage, and choice of provider.

Currently our medical liability system is very expensive, highly inefficient, and extremely adversarial thereby inflicting much emotional pain on all involved while leaving most individuals with medical injury uncompensated.
Celebrating 46 years this month, Medicare continues to pay for the health care of 47 million Americans. Medicare has improved the health of our seniors, reduced their risk of poverty, and improved the financial security of their families.

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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.

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Lipids, Menopause, and Early Atherosclerosis in Study of Women’s Health across the Nation Heart Women

Leslie Carol Botha — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:59:26 +0000

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Medscape Today

Genevieve A. Woodard, PhD; Maria M. Brooks, PhD; Emma Barinas-Mitchell, PhD; Rachel H. Mackey, PhD; Karen A. Matthews, PhD; Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, DrPH

Authors and Disclosures

Abstract and Introduction

Abstract

Objective: The risk of cardiovascular disease increases after menopause. Recent evidence suggests that it is possible for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) to become proatherogenic or dysfunctional in certain situations. Our objective was to evaluate whether the relationship of HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) to subclinical cardiovascular disease differed across the menopausal transition, which would provide insight for this increased risk.

Methods: Aortic calcification (AC), coronary artery calcification (CAC), carotid plaque, and intima media thickness (IMT) were measured in an ancillary study of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Women not using hormone therapy were stratified into premenopausal or early perimenopausal (Pre/EP, n = 316) and late perimenopausal or postmenopausal (LP/Post, n = 224).

Results: The inverse relationship of HDL-C to subclinical atherosclerosis measures among Pre/EP women was weaker or reversed among LP/Post women, adjusted for age, site, race, systolic blood pressure, glucose, body mass index, smoking, menopause status, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Specifically, multivariable modeling demonstrated an inverse association between HDL-C level and AC and IMT among Pre/EP women; however, the protective effect of HDL-C for AC, left main CAC, carotid plaque, and IMT was not seen in LP/Post women. In a small subset (n = 53), LP/Post women had more total and small HDL particles, higher triglyceride levels, and more total low-density lipoprotein particles compared with Pre/EP women (P < 0.05).

Conclusions: These results suggest that the protective effect of HDL may be diminished as women transition in menopause. Future studies should examine whether this may be due to changes in HDL size, functionality, or related changes in other lipids or lipoproteins.

Introduction

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality for women. As women age, they are increasingly exposed to high levels of major CVD risk factors, including a poor lipid profile and weight gain. In addition to adverse changes associated with chronological aging, women experience the biological changes of the menopausal transition. Decreasing estrogen levels during the transition have been linked to endothelial dysfunction and larger vessel diameters, markers of early adverse vascular changes.^[1–5] Therefore, the decreased estrogen level after the menopausal transition leaves the vasculature vulnerable to CVD risk factors, such as lipids.

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Is your medication causing you to suffer from malnutrition?

Leslie Carol Botha — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:57:48 +0000

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Natural News

Thursday, July 07, 2011 by: C.E Burch

Most people trust that the medicines that they take will help them overcome illness, enhance their health and promote well-being. Unfortunately medications often deplete important nutrients from the body, and people don’t find the relief that they seek.

People who have become malnourished as a result of their medications are vulnerable to a host of nutrition related diseases. To make matters worse, they may find themselves having to treat malnourishment with a new batch of medications and this may become a dangerous cycle.

For instance, statins which are used to control cholesterol levels reduce CoEnzyme 10 and other important nutrients. Statins may also result in lower levels of A, D, K, folic acid and iron in the body. Cholesterol gets a bad rap, but it helps the body digest fats and nutrients and is important for regulating hormones.

Even common medications such as laxatives and antacids can deplete or block the uptake of essential nutrients. PPI antacids, for example interfere with Vitamin B-12. Furthermore blocking acid production for long periods of time using antacids may reduce the body’s ability to absorb minerals. Loss of B12 over time may result in anemia, as well as other conditions including fatigue. Blocked acid production by antacids can leave the body vulnerable to infections and bone fractures as well.

The use of antibiotics has become a hot topic because the overuse of these medications has led to antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the loss of healthy bacteria. Antibiotics may also be harmful because they deplete the body of essential nutrients such as zinc, magnesium, Vitamins B, and iron.

Another group that decrease nutrients are pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs. Aspirin and salicylates available over the counter for example, rob the body of folic acid and potassium. Other medicines commonly used for pain and swelling such as Cortisone, and Prednisone reduce levels of the nutrients calcium, magnesium, folic acid, vitamins D and C to name a few.

Diuretics such as Lasis and Endecrin deplete sodium, potassium, magnesium and Vitamins B1 and B6. Other medications that serve as a diuretic like Enduron deplete levels of Co-Q 10, and sodium and other important nutrients. Women who take hormone replacement drugs and birth control drugs are also at risk for malnutrition as they deplete levels magnesium, zinc and B2, B6, B12 and folic acid.

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Pfizer’s Bid to Appeal $58 Million Prempro Jury Award Denied

Leslie Carol Botha — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:13:35 +0000

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Bloomberg

By Greg Stohr and Jef Feeley -
Jun 20, 2011 10:01 AM MT

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a Pfizer Inc. (PFE) unit’s appeal of a $58 million award to three Nevada women who contracted breast cancer after taking the company’s Premarin and Prempro menopause drugs.

The rebuff leaves the award as the largest to be upheld on appeal in thousands of hormone-replacement drug suits. More than 6 million women took Prempro and other menopause drugs before a 2002 study highlighted their links to cancer. Pfizer and its units at one point faced more than 10,000 claims, according to lawyers for former users.

The Nevada Supreme Court concluded jurors properly held Pfizer’s Wyeth unit responsible for hiding the breast-cancer risks of Premarin and Prempro. The original 2007 award totaled $134.1 million to Arlene Rowatt, Jeraldine Scofield and Pamela Forrester. The trial judge later reduced the verdict to $57.6 million.

“While we are disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision, it does nothing to change the fact that hormone therapy medicines are an important treatment option for many women with debilitating symptoms of menopause,” Chris Loder, a Pfizer spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement.

At the U.S. Supreme Court, Wyeth argued the Nevada judge should have ordered a new trial rather than reduce the award. The company argued the jury was swayed by an “improper and inflammatory” closing argument by the women’s lawyer.

‘False Reassurances’

Attorneys for the women urged the Supreme Court not to get involved, saying the award was warranted in light of the company’s mishandling of the drug and misleading marketing campaign.

“Wyeth refused to accept responsibility for what it did to these brave women,” Zoe Littlepage, a lawyer for Rowatt, Scofield and Forrester, said in an e-mailed statement. “Wyeth can’t hide any more. These women will finally see justice.”

Annual sales of Wyeth’s hormone-replacement drugs exceeded $2 billion before a 2002 study, sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, suggested that women using the medicines had a 24 percent higher risk of breast cancer.

Until 1995, many patients combined Premarin, Wyeth’s estrogen-based drug, with progestin-laden Provera, made by Pfizer’s Pharmacia & Upjohn unit. Wyeth then combined the two hormones in Prempro. The drugs are still on the market.

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Press Release: SaneVax Inc Writes Open Letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services: Rescind Gardasil Approval

In the interest of public health and safety, Sane Vax Inc., appeals to the Secretary of Health and Human services to request that FDA approval of Gardasil® be rescinded due to lack of efficacy demonstrated during post-licensure monitoring.

By Norma Erickson, President February 2, 2012

Scientists admit non-stick cookware and fluorine compounds cause vaccines to fail

Study shows estrogen works in the brain to keep weight in check

Southwestern Medical Center

Thousands of women at risk from DES

The Independent

A drug intended to prevent miscarriage is blamed for causing cancer in the daughters – and possibly even granddaughters – of women who took it decades ago.

Does this story sound familiar? It is playing out now and under the guise of the HPV Vaccines. LB

Monsanto Land was Poisoned and the Barren Women Cried.

Blott R

A True Help for the Cervical Dysplasia

Pap 101

Natural Hormone Treatment of Cervical Dysplasia

Single Payer Health Insurance Advocate to be interviewed on KRFC FM Fort Collins

Lipids, Menopause, and Early Atherosclerosis in Study of Women’s Health across the Nation Heart Women

Medscape Today

Abstract and Introduction

Abstract

Introduction

Is your medication causing you to suffer from malnutrition?

Natural News

Pfizer’s Bid to Appeal $58 Million Prempro Jury Award Denied

Bloomberg

‘False Reassurances’

In the interest of public health and safety, Sane Vax Inc., appeals to the
Secretary of Health and Human services to request that FDA approval of Gardasil® be rescinded
due to lack of efficacy demonstrated during post-licensure monitoring.

By Norma Erickson, President
February 2, 2012