AMAG snaps up rights to new med Intrarosa to compete with Pfizer’s Premarin® vaginal cream

Tracy Staton reporting for FiercePharma.com writes as follows.   AMAG Pharmaceuticals has big ambitions for its women’s health business, so it’s snapped up the rights to a new med, Intrarosa, to beef up that portfolio. The company plans to tout Intrarosa’s safety profile to set it apart from established estrogen-based treatments such as Pfizer’s Premarin cream…

Premarin Horses: How many does it take to make a billion dollars? Part 3

Newest Member of the Premarin Family ― Duavee How will this new drug impact profits and inevitably the PMU mares and their foals? DUAVEE®, the Premarin® ― bazedoxifene combination therapy for the treatment of menopausal symptoms and prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis in women who have not undergone hysterectomy was FDA-approved in October 2013 amid speculation…

Pfizer to cut jobs at Manitoba PMU plant

Pharma giant says decision won't affect its PMU ranchers Alberta Farm Express reports: Drugmaker Pfizer's restructuring of its estrogen extraction plant at Brandon, Man[itoba] calls for about 40 per cent fewer employees by the end of next year. The company processes conjugated estrogen from pregnant mares' urine (PMU) at Brandon to make the hormone replacement…

Wyeth wins, horses lose, in the Premarin® drug sales sweepstakes

Written by JANE ALLIN Research Analyst | Int'l Fund for Horses Since the introduction of Premarin in 1942, much controversy has followed the lucrative market monopoly of the world’s first conjugated equine estrogen therapy for the treatment of postmenopausal women. Historically, the number of PMU farms, sequestered mares and by-product foals steadily rose until the…

Join the ladies in the Bar-P Lounge for a shot of PMU

Help Save Women, the Mares and the Foals Advise your treating physicians about the cruelty to the mares and foals, and dangers to women -- and men too -- who take the Premarin family of drugs. --> Watch this video and rate it 5 stars to help give it more visibility on YouTube. --> Share…

Pfizer Wyeth merger worries PMU producers (US/CAN)

AN AGREEMENT that will see pharmaceutical giant Pfizer take over rival company Wyeth for $68 billion has caused some uncertainty for pregnant mare's urine producers in Sask, Man. and in North Dakota. Norm Luba , executive director of The North American Equine Ranching Information Council (NAERIC) said there are 71 PMU farms in Western Canada…

Pregnant Mare’s Urine Disguised as Osteoporosis Drugs? (US)

Watch The HRT Horses, MSNBC, 2004 (approx. 8 mins). By DANIELLE TITLAND HORSES grant us a special life, even something quite magical for little cowgirls and cowboys. However with all the love and passion in the equestrian lifestyle, every so often a story comes across my desk that I just cannot stomach. Many of us have heard of the PMU…

Rescue Me: Equine Angels Rescue Sanctuary (CT), Part 2

By VIVIAN GRANT If you spend any time around Frank Weller, founder and President of Equine Angels Rescue Sanctuary, or enter into any type of communication with him, the phrase “rescues rescue us” will turn up sooner or later. Most likely it will be sooner. ~ Vivian Grant, Founder and President of the Int' Fund…

Rescue Me: Equine Angels Rescue Sanctuary (CT), Part 1

By VIVIAN GRANT The human participants of Equine Angels Rescue Sanctuary could not sit idly by while these magnificent horses were killed. If it was just a matter of those lives saved, that would be enough, but fortunately we have come to know the greater potential of these angelic equines. Each of these horses ...…

Equine Angels: Stories of Rescue, Love, and Hope (Conn)

Equestrian News Release The human participants of Equine Angels Rescue Sanctuary could not sit idly by while these magnificent horses were killed. If it was just a matter of those lives saved, that would be enough, but fortunately, we have come to know the greater potential of these angelic equines. Each of the horses...has touched…