ghostwriting the health of your breast

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/business/13wyeth.html?8au&emc=au


Drug Maker Said to Pay Ghostwriters for Journal Articles


Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its female hormone replacement therapy Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company’s involvement in medical ghostwriting. At least one article was published even after a federal study found the drug raised the risk of breast cancer.

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“Any attempt to manipulate the scientific literature, that can in turn mislead doctors to prescribe drugs that may not work and/or cause harm to their patients, is very troubling,” Mr. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, wrote Friday to Wyeth’s chairman and chief executive, Bernard J. Poussot.

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Mr. Grassley’s staff on the Senate Finance Committee released dozens of pages of internal corporate documents gathered from lawsuits showing the central, previously undisclosed role of Wyeth and DesignWrite in creating articles promoting hormone therapy for menopausal women as far back as 1997.

One article was published as an “Editors’ Choice” feature in May 2003 in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, more than a year after a big federal study called the Women’s Health Initiative linked Wyeth’s Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin, to breast cancer. The May 2003 article said there was “no definitive evidence” that progestins cause breast cancer and added that hormone users had a better chance of surviving cancer.

At the peak of hormone therapy, in 2001, more than 126 million prescriptions for such drugs were written for women in the United States. Sales that year, primarily by Wyeth, were $3 billion. But after the federal finding, sales of the hormone drugs plummeted.

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Two months before the negative findings of the federal study were released, a May 2002 memo to DesignWrite employees said that Michael S. Dey, who was president of Wyeth’s Women’s Healthcare Business unit, asked a committee to increase the number of positive journal articles related to another of its hormone replacement drugs, Premarin. “Mike would like us to publish at least 1 study per month,” the memo said.
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sue the bastards - send them to prison

making money off our breasts and giving us illness.

men's war against women continues

[K Gardner]

1. I once overheard a physician say "Decades from now we will be referring to

these years as a holocaust against women" (referring to breast cancer and treatment)

Those of us into alternative/natural therapies have known about the pharmaceutical conspiracy for a very long time. I was told 10 years ago I would not live a year without chemo/radiation or mastectomy. I received letters from the lawyers representing the treating MDs stating they disavowed any responsibility for my care after I refused treatment.

A decade later, I'm healthier than I was then and 6 out of the 10 women I knew being treated by the same physicians for the same illness.. are dead.

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2. truth - filling their pockets with money made off our breasts

neo con criminals

but they say they love us