YOUR ACCESS TO NATURAL HORMONES IS BEING THREATENED! HURRY!! APRIL 4TH DEADLINE!

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Sue

February 2006

YOUR ACCESS TO NATURAL HORMONES IS BEING THREATENED!

APRIL 4 = DEADLY DEADLINE! Contact the FDA Today (CLICK HERE)

Below we have included information about how one pharmaceutical

company - Wyeth - is using their FDA connections to try to stop your

right to have access to bio-identical hormones.

It is our long-held belief that health care should be highly

individualized, allowing consumers to make choices from a wide range

of options for diagnosis & treatment.

Currently, due to unhealthy collusion between government regulatory

agencies and " big business " (specifically the pharmaceutical

industry), this freedom to choose is being seriously threatened. It

is up to us all - as providers and consumers of health care - to

maintain our right to make these choices before it quietly disappears.

There are many arenas in which this medical freedom of choice is at

risk, including the consolidated multinational effort by the

pharmaceutical industry (CODEX) to eliminate competition through

preventing health consumers from having access to commonly- used

vitamins and herbal products. This natural supplement industry has

grown in recent years by leaps and bounds as consumers have become

more aware of the benefits of natural products and the detriments of

drugs.

Yet our own government - while telling our youth to " just say NO to

drugs " - is pushing them on its citizens, often with seemingly little

regard for the serious and even life-threatening consequences.

Our children are being forced to take chemicals to alter their

behavior in the school environment (making them more docile and

easily controlled), yet are chastised when they experiment with

drugs, sending a very mixed message

Our senior citizens are often prescribed so many pharmaceuticals

(which now Medicare is attempting to pay for at the public's expense)

that they require extensive monitoring (which many sadly are not

getting) to avoid potentially fatal consequences, putting this

population at great risk.

Our medical system admits to at least 100,000 deaths per year caused

by doctors and fatal drug reactions

And now - again - women's lives are being undermined due to the

desire of drug companies to improve their profits.

What Can Stop This Madness?

Only you - the health consumers of America.

You can become aware of these challenges to your health, and speak

out on behalf of yourself, your loved ones, and those who cannot

speak for themselves, the youth, the aged, the infirm.

Wyeth, the makers of Premarin and Prempro, have seen a 72% decline in

sales recently, after the famous 2002 Womens Health Initiative Study

had to be halted because the results showed that women taking these

popular drugs were at heightened risk for blood clots, breast cancer,

heart attack and stroke! These very drugs had --for years --been sold

to the public as good protection for bones and heart!

Now Wyeth is using lobbyists to influence the FDA to prevent women

from using natural safe options for hormone balance. Bio-identical

hormones are safe and effective, often relieving the uncomfortable

symptoms of hormonal imbalances without the potentially life-

threatening side effects of chemical drugs like Premarin. They want

to make it illegal for us to use compounded (individually prepared)

pills and creams from natural " bio-identical " sources.

At least 20,000 signatures and notes are needed by April 4 to stop

this travesty.

Take a minute, read the letter below, and click on the link to FDA

comment line. You may also want to send this to your local

representatives, to be sure the FDA is accurately reporting its

feedback. The FDA - and your representatives - are there to protect

you from harm and to support your best interests - not those of the

pharmaceutical giants!

Let your voice be heard in this important issue.

Remember, " The price of democracy is eternal vigilance " .

Yours in Health Partnership,

Karilee Shames PhD, RN, A-HNC

Shames MD

PS - Be sure to sign up for your free membership at CanaryClub.org,

your consumer advocacy group for health and environmental issues.

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Dear Partners in the Wellness Revolution:

Wyeth Pharmaceutical wants the FDA to take away your right to choose

safe, effective and natural, bio- identical hormones and regulate

your choice of health treatments. We have until April 4, 2006 to stop

them.

Wyeth, the maker of Premarin and Prempro, filed a " Citizens

Complaint " with the FDA on October 16, 2005, requesting that the FDA

effectively prohibit compounding pharmacies from providing bio-

identical hormones to their patients. This would mean that you would

no longer be able to get your bio-identical hormones from us or from

any one else.

Since the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) which demonstrated

that Wyeth's products, Premarin and Prempro, caused a significant

increase in breast cancer, blood clots to the lungs, heart attacks

and strokes, Wyeth has seen a dramatic decline in the sales of these

counterfeit hormones. Wyeth's financial reports, which are available

online at www.wyeth.com, indicate the following significant decline

in sales of Premarin Family products;

2002 - $2,072,000,000;

2003 - $1,275,000,000;

2004 - $880,000,000.

This represents a 68% decline in sales of Premarin Family products

between 2002 - 2004. Wyeth's profits have likewise declined

precipitously; 2002 - $4,447,000,000; 2003 - $2,051,192,000; 2004 -

$1,234,000,000, a 72% decline in profits.

Tens of thousands of women have forsaken Premarin family drugs for

bio-identical hormones. Wyeth is simply trying to stop its losses and

regain its market share. Wyeth wants to force women to take their

counterfeit hormones by eliminating the competition from bio-

identical hormones prepared by compounding pharmacies.

The FDA receives drug user fees, totaling at least $300,000,000 in

2004, from the pharmaceutical companies for the drugs they sell. The

less drugs that Wyeth sells, the less money the FDA makes. The FDA

collects no drug user fees from compounding pharmacies because they

are regulated by the states, not the federal government. So the FDA

wants to eliminate compounding pharmacies as well.

Pharmaceutical companies recruit key FDA employees to work for them

at huge salaries. This is the dream of many bureaucrats, to get a

high paying job with a big drug company. So you can understand why

FDA regulators have an incentive to please Wyeth.

Wyeth, like all the major pharmaceutical companies, contributes

billions of dollars to various medical societies and patient advocacy

organizations. So it is not surprising that many of these

organizations have written responses to the FDA in support of Wyeth's

complaint. Because of their money ties to Wyeth, these organizations

endorse Wyeth's products and do Wyeth's bidding. When an organization

supports something which is obviously detrimental to women and men,

it is important to follow the money trail.

Wyeth can and must be defeated in its attempt to restrict patients'

rights to choose to safe, effective and natural treatments using bio-

identical hormones.

You can voice your opposition to the Wyeth Complaint by going

directly to the FDA comment link below and telling the FDA your story

about the benefits that bio-identical hormones have made in your

life. The comment filing period ends on April 4, 2006 at which time

the FDA will make its decision.

To stop Wyeth and the FDA we need at least 20,000 comments opposing

the Wyeth complaint. So write your comment online today!

Please forward this information to any one who will support this

effort. Print & copy as needed.

FDA Comment Link for the Wyeth Complaint

The comment period on the Wyeth Petition is open until April 4, 2006.

Here is a link where comments can be filed with the FDA on-line:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc /dockets/comments/commentsmai

n.cfm? EC_DOCUMENT_ID=794 & SUBTYP=NEXT & CID= & AGENCY =FDA

After entering the requested information (zip code, name, etc.), hit

the continue button to get the comment screen. Comments can be up to

4,000 characters. Hit the continue button to get to the next screen,

where attachments can be filed. Hit the button " save comments " to

submit (doesn't make sense, but I tried it with a test comment).

Hard copy comments (which can also be scanned and submitted as an

attachment using the above link) can be mailed to:

Food and Drug Administration

Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)

5630 Fishers Lane

Room 1061

Rockville, MD 20852

Please forward this e-mail to everyone on your distribution lists.

Your ability to continue to choose your treatment depends upon our

success in blocking Wyeth and the FDA in their plan to eliminate bio-

identical hormones.

Thanking you for supporting patients' rights to choose bio-identical

hormones

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