Women Are Dying From Hormone Therapy; Why Is Pharma Still Allowed to Push It?

Pharma's lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 26 percent. But an article in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows hormone therapy also increases the chance of dying from breast cancer, as followups are conducted on women who took it.

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Women Are Dying From Hormone Therapy; Why Is Pharma Still Allowed to Push It?

Want to increase your chances of getting, and possibly dying from, node-positive breast cancer? Take hormone therapy.

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Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

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Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials

he Ohio medical board concluded [1] [1] that pain physician William D. Leak had performed unnecessary nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to an excessive number of invasive procedures, including injections of agents that destroy nerve tissue.

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Public 'misled' by drug trial claims

Doctors and patients are being misled about the effectiveness of some drugs because negative trial results are not published, experts have warned.

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Evidence-Based Medicine is Not Exclusive of Alternative Medicine

(NaturalNews) There appears to be a disconnect between what is evidence-based medicine and alternative medical options. The problem is with mainstream medicine and its virtual control over what is considered to be "evidence-based." This is due to the corruption of science that has been perpetrated in the name of Big Pharma and her allies.

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Sexual dysfunction in females overrated

While experts aver that millions of women around the world suffer from sexual difficulty such as low libido and discomfort, a new book has said that all these claims are mere exaggerations to boost sales of 'Viagra' like drugs for what they call female sexual dysfunction (FSD).

Pharmaceutical companies have spent millions to find an effective drug solution hoping for similar returns to Viagra, the male impotence pill that is worth an astonishing 500 million dollars in sales every year.

Already women can be prescribed a testosterone patch to boost low libido; other treatments waiting to be licensed include an anti-depressant-type drug that affects the feel-good brain chemical serotonin and one containing the hormone DHEA that the body can turn into testosterone.

But now a new book suggests that not only is the effectiveness of such treatments questionable, but the claim that nearly half of all women have a problem is deliberately misleading and a wild exaggeration.

In fact, researchers and pharmaceutical companies are accused of 'medicalising' female sexual problems in order to sell drugs.

A business report from Datamonitor in 2003 predicted that the market for female sexual dysfunction drugs could soon approach 1 billion dollars a year

According to leading health journalist Ray Moynihan it's all part of the drive by drug companies to 'expand the patient pool' by 'creating markets for lifestyle drugs' for both men and women.

"Companies no longer just sell drugs," the Daily Mail quoted Moynihan as saying in his book, 'Sex, Lies And Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Are Bankrolling The Next Big Condition For Women'.

"Increasingly they create a disease like female sexual dysfunction and then spend a fortune "educating" doctors to prescribe strong drugs to women that they don't need and that are unlikely to help them," said Moynihan.

Furthermore, these drugs, which are marginally effective at best, come with a nasty raft of potential side-effects, including nausea, dizziness and a raised risk of heart disease.

One drug currently applying for a licence can cause depression and even loss of consciousness.

Moynihan is livid over the claim that 43 per cent of woman suffer from a sexual problem, calling it 'one of the most pervasive medical myths, as extreme as it is absurd'.

Researchers into sexual disorders all agree that some women have genuine sexual problems that may involve anxiety, pain or difficulty that might respond to medical treatment.

But many others might be better helped with counselling.

Yet there is an awful lot of money and expertise invested in persuading both the medical profession and patients that popping a pill to revive a flagging libido is the quickest and easiest route to go.

Moynihan's book describes in impressive detail just how this is being achieved.

For instance, 95 per cent of the experts who hammered out the medical definition of female sexual dysfunction that's widely used in promotional literature had financial relationships with the company making a drug to treat it.

Mike Adams: FDA censorship of nutritional science threatens health of all Americans

At the same time the FDA is attacking health foods, it openly allows ridiculous health claims on processed dead junk foods.

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Martha Rosenberg: Can Drugs Make Americans Less Fat? Not Likely

Even though two-thirds of American adults are overweight and a third obese, few drugs have been able to make a dent in our gross national product; they've proved to be ineffective and sometimes dangerous.

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Pfizer: The Drug Giant That Makes Bank from Drugs That Can Kill You

The drug company Pfizer is best known for Lipitor, a drug that brings cholesterol down and Viagra, a drug that brings other things up. But the "world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company" which sits between Goldman Sachs and Marathon Oil on the Fortune 500, is also closely associated with a seemingly never-ending series of scandals.

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