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The Benefits Of Hormone Replacement Therapy Overstated And Harms Downplayed By Ghostwritten Articles

The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters to insert marketing messages into articles published in medical journals. Dr...

Questions over ghostwriting in drug industry

By Ewen Callaway Journal articles on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) ghostwritten by medical writers employed by the pharmaceutical industry serially understated the treatment's risks and promoted unapproved uses, according to an analysis of industry documents. The analysis, published September 7 in the journal PLoS Medicine , is based on some 1,500 e-mails, contracts and other documents made ...

Urinary incontinence and menopause

Urinary incontinence is usually blamed on menopause. But is there more to the story behind those bladder leaks?

Team to study health effects of botanical estrogens

( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) An ongoing research initiative into the health effects of botanical estrogens will get an $8 million boost from the National Institutes of Health. The Botanical Research Center, based at the University of Illinois, will address the many unknowns associated with use of botanical estrogens. These plants and plant-based compounds are often marketed as ...

Study finds non-hormonal therapies can relieve hot flashes in women with breast cancer

Many women enduring hot flashes experience the heat, sweat and reddened upper body as an uncomfortable inconvenience. However, hot flashes can greatly diminish a woman's quality of life, disrupting sleep at night or causing embarrassment as she goes about her daily business. Many women enduring hot flashes experience the heat, sweat and reddened upper body as an uncomfortable inconvenience ...