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GEN: Hands Off My Estrogen From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Tue Feb 12 05:51:51 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "GEN: Another UK Women's Health Nightmare" Previous message: ND84MD@aol.com: "Re: I'm selling my 4th edition of the 2001-2002 ALSO syllabus" Group protests FDA chastisement of pharmacies which compound hormones. On the front page of its Health section, the Washington Post (2/12, HE1, Boodman) reports that "[s]tung by a crackdown on unproven claims about the safety and effectiveness of medications made by pharmacies to treat menopause, supporters of the drugs have launched a lobbying campaign aimed at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." Recently, the HOME (Hands Off My Estrogens!) Coalition "placed a full-page ad in five newspapers,...accusing regulators of being hostile to 'natural' hormonal medicines made according to a doctor's prescription by a compounding pharmacy." The group is urging "women and their physicians to email the White House and members of Congress," and ask "them to protect patients' access to medications they claim are 'bio-identical' to those found in the body." But, Steven Silverman, M.D., assistant director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, "criticized the coalition's assertions," saying, "There is no credible science to back the claim that compounded hormones are biologically identical to the hormones produced by the body." http://links.mkt211.com/ctt?kn=18&m=847498&r=MTI5NzM3MTY4OQS2&b=0&j=NDg0ODU5MzYS1&mt=2&rj=NDg0ODU5MzYS1 What's next? That vaccination DOESN'T cause autism? Oh ... Art -- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton Next message: art fougner, md: "GEN: Another UK Women's Health Nightmare" Previous message: ND84MD@aol.com: "Re: I'm selling my 4th edition of the 2001-2002 ALSO syllabus"

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