USA Today, Wed. 6/13/01 Hormone Therapy:Doubts Grow

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Hi all,

FYI-

According to the front page article in USA Today newspaper

Wed., 6/13/2001--

" ....Hormone replacement therapy has been promoted

for everything from protecting against heart attacks to

staving off Alzheimer's. But evidence is accumulating

that women should not count on it for more than relief

of menopause symptoms such as hot flashes...

read the rest of the article which appeared on the front

page of the newsprint USA Today online at:

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HREF= " http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/2001-06-13-hormone-cover\

..htm " >Click here: Hormone therapy: Doubts grow</A>

http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/2001-06-13-hormone-cover.htm

Personal opinion? How much money in the last 3 decades

has been provided by the pharmaceutical industry to prescribing Ob-GYN's for

HRT for their hysterectomized patients? If not money, then gifts....ad

nauseum....

How much excreted residual of HRT gets back into the drinking water

systems in the USA or globally? Inquiring minds want to know.

Someone, please someone, prove me wrong.

Marsha