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Why does it matter if a large percentage of women at this moment are not treating their menopausal symptoms? What could it possibly have to do with horses? Perhaps quite a bit. It may put the final nail in the coffin of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs made from the urine of pregnant mares. We… Continue reading 73% of women don’t treat their menopause symptoms, new survey shows
JANUARY 2019 FDA denies Pfizer Petition asking for new method of assessing Premarin generics The FDA has denied a citizen petition from Pfizer calling on the agency to use the company’s method for assessing sameness in generics for its estrogen drug Premarin (conjugated “equine” estrogens). Pfizer had appealed to the FDA to force sponsors of… Continue reading Premarin 2019 Year in Review
We made the following response to a comment on our Premarin 2019 Timeline and thought it might be worthwhile sharing with everyone as a post. We have altered it slightly to make the content clearer for this format. Working as the Int’l Fund for Horses we are launching a social media campaign in Chinese and… Continue reading Premarin in China campaign
JANUARY 2019 FDA denies Pfizer Petition asking for new method of assessing Premarin generics The FDA has denied a citizen petition from Pfizer calling on the agency to use the company’s method for assessing sameness in generics for its estrogen drug Premarin (conjugated “equine” estrogens). Pfizer had appealed to the FDA to force sponsors of… Continue reading Premarin® Horses 2019 Year in Review
"I decided to speak out because I believe most women do not realize the hormone replacement therapy drug Premarin® actually stands for PREgnant MARe urINe, and that it is a billion dollar industry built on horse abuse and slaughter." ~ Alexandra Gritta Portland, OR (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 Alexandra Gritta, sixteen-year-old author and President of… Continue reading Oregon teen author raises $20,000 for rescued PMU horses
Cross-posted from AlterNet.org Written by MARTHA ROSENBERG At the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Orlando, researchers announced that women who take hormone therapy (HT) are 60 percent more likely to die from lung cancer if they develop it. But Wyeth’s Joseph Camardo, MD didn’t let the report curb his enthusiasm for the… Continue reading Hormone advice from Pharma was more deception
We are not spiritually unconnected from the drugs we take, or from the pain and suffering that goes into their making." -- Alice Walker “We crush ’em and recycle ’em . . . just like aluminum cans.” -- Pat Houde, equine feed lot manager, regarding Premarin foals and mares The Int'l Fund for Horses is… Continue reading Alert your doctor not to prescribe Premarin for menopausal symptoms
by RON WILSON Thanks to my late father, a drug made from animal waste is the most widely prescribed drug in the world today. My father, Dr. Robert A. Wilson, penned the influential 1960s book "Feminine Forever," which promoted and popularized the idea of menopause as a disease. Menopause is a "living decay," he wrote,… Continue reading Premarin regrets
In generations past, horses were abandoned or shipped off to slaughter once it was decided that they had worn out their usefulness in pulling wagons or plows and in carrying loads or people: think of poor Boxer, carried away by a van marked “Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler” toward the end of George… Continue reading Menopause, Horses, and the Industry of Death
by SINIKKA CROSLAND October 31, 2003 I just had a conversation with Steve Tasher, Senior VP for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Not surprisingly, he was defensive about being "interviewed" (as he called it), yet he did listen to my concerns about the current crisis. He stated that the farmers have received payment for the care and veterinary… Continue reading Wyeth sets up Equine Placement Fund
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