Re: Wyeth tries to keep women on dangerous hormones

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/11/02 2:18:31 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

stinky72001@... writes:

> the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

> actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

>

Are you talking about Hutton????? Yes, they make it sound so

glamorous to take estrogen and how maybe if we do, we'll be successful and

youthful looking even at 58+ . I know 's " beau " ran off with all her

money, and Patti hasn't had a spectacular career of late, so maybe they did

it for the $$$$$$$$!!!!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/11/02 2:18:31 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

stinky72001@... writes:

> the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

> actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

>

Are you talking about Hutton????? Yes, they make it sound so

glamorous to take estrogen and how maybe if we do, we'll be successful and

youthful looking even at 58+ . I know 's " beau " ran off with all her

money, and Patti hasn't had a spectacular career of late, so maybe they did

it for the $$$$$$$$!!!!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/11/02 2:18:31 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

stinky72001@... writes:

> the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

> actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

>

Are you talking about Hutton????? Yes, they make it sound so

glamorous to take estrogen and how maybe if we do, we'll be successful and

youthful looking even at 58+ . I know 's " beau " ran off with all her

money, and Patti hasn't had a spectacular career of late, so maybe they did

it for the $$$$$$$$!!!!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/11/02 2:18:31 PM Mountain Daylight Time,

stinky72001@... writes:

> the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

> actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

>

Are you talking about Hutton????? Yes, they make it sound so

glamorous to take estrogen and how maybe if we do, we'll be successful and

youthful looking even at 58+ . I know 's " beau " ran off with all her

money, and Patti hasn't had a spectacular career of late, so maybe they did

it for the $$$$$$$$!!!!

[Guest guest]

yea, sweetie, and even more disgusting are the ads that keep running

on tv. I had my tv on for 1/2 hour this morning and heard both the

ads for hrt, the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

> This is truly disgusting...there's no end to their greed or their

complete

> disregard for womens lives.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/health/11WYET.html

>

> July 11, 2002

>

> Company Sends Letter to Retain Hormone Sales

> By MELODY PETERSEN

>

> Moving quickly to try to prevent women from stopping their hormone

> replacement treatments because of fear of breast cancer, the Wyeth

company

> has sent 500,000 letters to doctors and other health care providers

urging

> them to consider when they talk to patients the " critical role " that

one of

> its products, Prempro, has in relieving the symptoms of menopause.

>

> A spokesman for Wyeth, Petkus, said the company began

sending the

> letters on Tuesday, soon after researchers announced that they had

halted a

> large study of the long-term use of Prempro.

>

> The researchers stopped the study of the drug, a combination of

estrogen and

> progestin that six million women take, after finding that it caused

small

> increases in breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

>

> The letter provides a glimpse at how Wyeth hopes to hold onto sales

of

> Prempro and its related hormone therapy drug, Premarin, which

generated more

> than $2 billion in sales for the company last year.

>

> The letter tries to differentiate between women who take Prempro for

more

> than four years, the point where researchers found a higher risk of

breast

> cancer, and those who took it for less time. The letter urges

doctors to

> consider Prempro's benefits of relieving hot flashes and other

problems in

> healthy women who begin the therapy early in menopause.

>

> Wyeth appears to be trying to keep any loss of sales limited to

women who

> take Prempro for four years or longer. To reduce fears, Wyeth also

points

> out that the risks of breast cancer and heart problems had already

been

> found in other studies and included in Prempro's labeling.

>

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[Guest guest]

yea, sweetie, and even more disgusting are the ads that keep running

on tv. I had my tv on for 1/2 hour this morning and heard both the

ads for hrt, the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

> This is truly disgusting...there's no end to their greed or their

complete

> disregard for womens lives.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/health/11WYET.html

>

> July 11, 2002

>

> Company Sends Letter to Retain Hormone Sales

> By MELODY PETERSEN

>

> Moving quickly to try to prevent women from stopping their hormone

> replacement treatments because of fear of breast cancer, the Wyeth

company

> has sent 500,000 letters to doctors and other health care providers

urging

> them to consider when they talk to patients the " critical role " that

one of

> its products, Prempro, has in relieving the symptoms of menopause.

>

> A spokesman for Wyeth, Petkus, said the company began

sending the

> letters on Tuesday, soon after researchers announced that they had

halted a

> large study of the long-term use of Prempro.

>

> The researchers stopped the study of the drug, a combination of

estrogen and

> progestin that six million women take, after finding that it caused

small

> increases in breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

>

> The letter provides a glimpse at how Wyeth hopes to hold onto sales

of

> Prempro and its related hormone therapy drug, Premarin, which

generated more

> than $2 billion in sales for the company last year.

>

> The letter tries to differentiate between women who take Prempro for

more

> than four years, the point where researchers found a higher risk of

breast

> cancer, and those who took it for less time. The letter urges

doctors to

> consider Prempro's benefits of relieving hot flashes and other

problems in

> healthy women who begin the therapy early in menopause.

>

> Wyeth appears to be trying to keep any loss of sales limited to

women who

> take Prempro for four years or longer. To reduce fears, Wyeth also

points

> out that the risks of breast cancer and heart problems had already

been

> found in other studies and included in Prempro's labeling.

>

> Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company | Permissions | Privacy

Policy

>

> _________________________________________________________________

> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:

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[Guest guest]

yea, sweetie, and even more disgusting are the ads that keep running

on tv. I had my tv on for 1/2 hour this morning and heard both the

ads for hrt, the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

> This is truly disgusting...there's no end to their greed or their

complete

> disregard for womens lives.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/health/11WYET.html

>

> July 11, 2002

>

> Company Sends Letter to Retain Hormone Sales

> By MELODY PETERSEN

>

> Moving quickly to try to prevent women from stopping their hormone

> replacement treatments because of fear of breast cancer, the Wyeth

company

> has sent 500,000 letters to doctors and other health care providers

urging

> them to consider when they talk to patients the " critical role " that

one of

> its products, Prempro, has in relieving the symptoms of menopause.

>

> A spokesman for Wyeth, Petkus, said the company began

sending the

> letters on Tuesday, soon after researchers announced that they had

halted a

> large study of the long-term use of Prempro.

>

> The researchers stopped the study of the drug, a combination of

estrogen and

> progestin that six million women take, after finding that it caused

small

> increases in breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

>

> The letter provides a glimpse at how Wyeth hopes to hold onto sales

of

> Prempro and its related hormone therapy drug, Premarin, which

generated more

> than $2 billion in sales for the company last year.

>

> The letter tries to differentiate between women who take Prempro for

more

> than four years, the point where researchers found a higher risk of

breast

> cancer, and those who took it for less time. The letter urges

doctors to

> consider Prempro's benefits of relieving hot flashes and other

problems in

> healthy women who begin the therapy early in menopause.

>

> Wyeth appears to be trying to keep any loss of sales limited to

women who

> take Prempro for four years or longer. To reduce fears, Wyeth also

points

> out that the risks of breast cancer and heart problems had already

been

> found in other studies and included in Prempro's labeling.

>

> Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company | Permissions | Privacy

Policy

>

> _________________________________________________________________

> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:

http://messenger.msn.com

[Guest guest]

yea, sweetie, and even more disgusting are the ads that keep running

on tv. I had my tv on for 1/2 hour this morning and heard both the

ads for hrt, the one with Patti Labelle and the other one with the

actress/model (brain dead - forget her name!).

> This is truly disgusting...there's no end to their greed or their

complete

> disregard for womens lives.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/health/11WYET.html

>

> July 11, 2002

>

> Company Sends Letter to Retain Hormone Sales

> By MELODY PETERSEN

>

> Moving quickly to try to prevent women from stopping their hormone

> replacement treatments because of fear of breast cancer, the Wyeth

company

> has sent 500,000 letters to doctors and other health care providers

urging

> them to consider when they talk to patients the " critical role " that

one of

> its products, Prempro, has in relieving the symptoms of menopause.

>

> A spokesman for Wyeth, Petkus, said the company began

sending the

> letters on Tuesday, soon after researchers announced that they had

halted a

> large study of the long-term use of Prempro.

>

> The researchers stopped the study of the drug, a combination of

estrogen and

> progestin that six million women take, after finding that it caused

small

> increases in breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

>

> The letter provides a glimpse at how Wyeth hopes to hold onto sales

of

> Prempro and its related hormone therapy drug, Premarin, which

generated more

> than $2 billion in sales for the company last year.

>

> The letter tries to differentiate between women who take Prempro for

more

> than four years, the point where researchers found a higher risk of

breast

> cancer, and those who took it for less time. The letter urges

doctors to

> consider Prempro's benefits of relieving hot flashes and other

problems in

> healthy women who begin the therapy early in menopause.

>

> Wyeth appears to be trying to keep any loss of sales limited to

women who

> take Prempro for four years or longer. To reduce fears, Wyeth also

points

> out that the risks of breast cancer and heart problems had already

been

> found in other studies and included in Prempro's labeling.

>

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Policy

>

> _________________________________________________________________

> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:

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[Guest guest]

LOL Glitter - that's what I figured too. oh well.......I guess once

a person experiences fame and fortune, it's pretty hard to give it up.

I heard Patti LaBelle lives here in Port Hueneme (I live on the

border of hueneme and oxnard). Maybe I should look her up and give

her a good talkin to - ha ha !

[Guest guest]

LOL Glitter - that's what I figured too. oh well.......I guess once

a person experiences fame and fortune, it's pretty hard to give it up.

I heard Patti LaBelle lives here in Port Hueneme (I live on the

border of hueneme and oxnard). Maybe I should look her up and give

her a good talkin to - ha ha !