Originally published April 7 2004
Drug companies hid the true dangers of HRT drugs from the public for
five years
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Big Lie about pharmaceuticals is that they are released to the
public only after years of testing that proves them to be safe. In
reality, very few pharmaceuticals are safe at all, and most do far more
harm than good. The Big Lie gets even bigger, however, when you realize
that drug companies intentionally hide or ignore negative test results
in order to keep selling dangerous drugs to an unwary public. It is now
surfacing that drug companies were fully aware of the health risks of
hormone replacement therapy (HRT) five years before sharing that
information with the public. HRT drugs were once heralded as a
pharmaceutical miracle that would "reverse the ravages of aging" for
women seeking hormonal balance. Hundreds of thousands of women around
the world were put on the drugs, generating billions of dollars in
profits for drug companies. Yet there was never any good science backing
up the wild claims made by drug companies and promoted by the medical
industry. Doctors were prescribing HRT drugs based on nothing more than
marketing propaganda from drug companies. There were simply no studies
showing the drugs to be safe.
Years later, a few experts who tried
to warn the public about the dangers of these drugs were widely
ridiculed, and probably received far worse treatment behind close doors
(being blackballed by the industry, likely). The drug companies, for
their part, were fully aware of the dangers of these drugs, but hid the
studies from the public for as long as they could, generating profits at
the expense of public health.
Only now, after pulling every stunt in
the book to keep the truth from coming out, do we learn about the true
health risks of taking HRT drugs. This episode is just one of many
examples of bad medicine I've documented on this site. The
pharmaceutical industry has proven itself to be nothing less than
criminal in its actions. The industry operates like a criminal
organization that knows no ethical bounds. It trades public health for
corporate profits, it cajoles people into taking a cocktail of chemical
toxins that do nothing to increase long-term quality of life, and it
acts with the full protection of the FDA -- an agency that's actually
dedicated to protecting, not regulating, the drug lords.
As a
nation, we'd all be better off by following Nancy Reagan's advice: Just
Say NO to drugs. All drugs.
Drug companies knew about the health risks surrounding hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) five years before the public were informed.
Thousands of women may have been put at unnecessary risk because they
were involved in HRT trials when experts knew that the menopause
treatments increased the risk of heart disease.
Experts from the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at
Oxford University conducted a study as early as 1997, which found there
was a significantly increased risk of heart disease among women who took
HRT.
The researchers, having finally obtained six unpublished studies,
found that the health risks associated with HRT were greater than they
had initially thought.
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