ALL Premarin medications are non synthetic organic, and ALL Premarin is derived from the estrogens extracted from Pregnant Mares' Urine (PMU).  If you ever doubted where Premarin comes from, just break open a pill and smell it! 

On Premarin ....

Premarin (conjugated estrogens) has been linked to the following serious side effects: Ovarian Cancer, Lupus, Scleroderma, Gallbladder Cancer and Stroke. Premarin is an estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) used to treat the symptoms of menopause. Premarin is typically prescribed for women without a uterus. 

Recently, the National Institutes of Health recently stopped a trial of women taking Premarin estrogen replacement therapy after finding the pills not only failed to reduce the risk of heart disease but raised the possibility of a stroke. 

The Premarin trial was the second large trial of hormone replacement therapy to have been halted in two years. In July 2002, women taking Prempro (estrogen and progestin) were told to stop because of the risk of heart attack, stroke and some forms of cancer. 

In a report published in the Journal of American Medical Association, doctors report that women who take estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy such as Premarin for a long period of time have a higher-than-average risk of developing ovarian cancer. 

Women who took estrogen HRT's like Premarin for longer periods of time had a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer, and the researchers noted a 7% increase in risk associated with every extra year of estrogen HRT use. 

Those who took estrogen for at least 10 years were twice as likely to develop ovarian cancer and those who used the drugs for 20 or more years were three times as likely to develop ovarian cancer as those who did not take the hormone, the report indicates. 

Premarin was the first hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug to hit the market. Premarin was first marketed in 1942 to alleviate the symptoms of menopause in women. Today, Premarin is still the most popular HRT drug, and one of the most prescribed drugs in the world. 

There are approximately eleven million women currently taking Premarin. The popularity of this drug is due both to its extensive history and an aggressive marketing campaign by Wyeth.

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05/21/04 - Hormone Drug Basis For Lawsuit 
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Sharon Coolidge 
Ten Ohio women filed a lawsuit Thursday against several major pharmaceutical companies three with offices in Cincinnati saying the hormone therapy drugs manufactured by the companies caused their breast cancer and, in one case, a debilitating stroke. 

04/29/04 - The Risks of Hormone Therapy 
Tier women join lawsuit against drug company
Press & Sun-Bulletin - DOM YANCHUNAS 
Like most women, Maureen McCormack struggled through menopause, wondering when the hot flashes and fatigue would end. Little did she know she was in for bigger health problems. 

03/07/04 - Colon Cancer Risk Found With HRT 
Wall Street Journal - RACHEL ZIMMERMAN 
Post menopausal women who developed colorectal cancer while on hormone therapy were diagnosed at a later and potentially more deadly stage of the disease than women not receiving the combination estrogen progestin treatment, researchers report. 

03/03/04 - Researchers Stop Estrogen Study Over Stroke Fears 
www.ft.com - Christopher Bowe 
Researchers with the US National Institutes of Health have stopped a seven year federal study of estrogen use by post menopausal women after finding the therapy increased the risk of strokes, although it neither prevented nor caused heart disease. 

03/03/04 - Stroke Risks Stop Study On Estrogen 
Chicago Tribune - Judy Peres 
The National Institutes of Health has halted a large study on the long term effects of estrogen therapy in healthy women, officials announced Tuesday, saying the hormone caused an increased risk of stroke. 

03/03/04 - NIH Halts Study of Estrogen Therapy 
Newsday - RONI RABIN 
For the second time in two years, the National Institutes of Health has halted a massive women's health study, telling post menopausal participants to stop taking estrogen because it does not protect them from heart disease even as it increases the risk of stroke. 

03/02/04 - Estrogen Trial Shows More Stroke Risk 
Reuters - Maggie Fox, 
The National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it had stopped a trial of women taking estrogen replacement therapy after finding the pills not only failed to reduce the risk of heart disease but raised the possibility of a stroke. 

03/02/04 - Estrogen Linked to Stroke, Dementia Risk 
AP - LAURAN NEERGAARD 
Long term use of estrogen slightly increases women's risk of a stroke and possibly of dementia, the government said Tuesday, halting the nation's last major study of the hormone a year early because of the safety concern. 

03/02/04 - U.S. Stops Estrogen Study, Citing Risk of Stroke 
New York Times - DENISE GRADY 
A large federal study of estrogen therapy in post menopausal women has been stopped a year ahead of schedule because the hormone increased the risk of stroke and offered no protection against heart disease, the government announced today. 

03/02/04 - U.S. Halts Another HRT Trial 
Health Day News - 
U.S. health officials have halted the third portion of a landmark hormone replacement therapy trial. 

03/02/04 - Estrogen Trial Halted Early 
Los Angeles Times - Rosie Mestel 
The last major component of a landmark clinical trial investigating the effects of hormone replacement therapy has been terminated a year ahead of schedule because of a slightly increased risk of strokes, the National Institutes of Health announced today. 

02/27/04 - Early Data Could Have Shown HRT Risks: Researchers 
Reuters - Stephen Pincock 
The potential risks of hormone replacement therapy could have been exposed much earlier if data from trials conducted by pharmaceutical companies had been made publicly available, according to an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) this week. 

02/24/04 - Hormone Therapy May Affect Hearing, Study Shows 
Reuters - 
Hormone replacement therapy, already blamed for raising the risk of stroke, heart attack, some kinds of cancer and even Alzheimer's disease may also cause hearing loss, researchers said on Tuesday. 

02/23/04 - Hormone Supplements, Asthma May Be Linked 
AP - LINDSEY TANNER 
Hormone supplements may be linked to yet another health problem in women: asthma. A study found that women who use hormones during menopause run double the risk of developing the respiratory ailment. 

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Approximately  40,000 foals are slaughtered annually. Foals are allowed to nurse and be with their mothers for only three or four months instead of of the normal six month period. Some farmers breed registered horses hoping to sell the foals as riding prospects. And though a few have succeeded, many thousands of foals still go to unsheltered feedlots until they reach a desirable market weight. Then they are slaughtered and their carcasses shipped to Europe and Asia for human consumption. Some of the feed lot-raised foals are even shipped live (which is illegal) to foreign markets at great expense, others replace the exhausted mares on the production line. Over 50 years, this "harvest" has killed millions of PMU foals. 

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