Readers of major daily newspapers (remember them?) learned last week that Wyeth (the big pharma, not the artist) paid writers to produce glowing articles for medical journals about the benefits of taking hormones to protect against problems like aging skin, heart disease and dementia.For a while, life was sweet, at least for those companies who sold the hormones. Then, as the New York Times reports, the seeming consensus fell apart in 2002 when a large-scale federal study was stopped after researchers found that menopausal
women who took certain hormones had an increased risk of invasive breast cancer, heart disease and stroke. According to the Times, a later study found that hormones increased the risk of dementia in older patients. Yikes!
Now, HealthDay reports, even while several researchers attempt to demonstrate the benefits of hormone replacement, the experts who count aren't buying. The American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association are still convinced that hormone replacement therapy is more likely to do harm than good. The Bottom line? Hormone replacement is still a bad idea. And Franco is still dead.
Read more in HealthDay.
Full disclosure is a fraud!
Anyone closely associated with the medical (scientific) community has known this for years.
Research the credentials of anyone reviewing or contributing to any article published in any so-called ‘scientific’ journal and you will be amazed at the level of abuse.
BTW – hormone replacement therapy meds promulgated by the big pharma companies is based on HORSE DERIVED ESTROGEN!
Many natural organic estrogens are available that are not only sooooooooooo much more benificial but don’t have the terminal side effects.
There are scientific benefits of taking hormones such as men taking testosterone for fighting osteoporosis and depression. Men with poor prostrate health cannot take it though. This article does not tell the whole story about hormones and thus is misleading.