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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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