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		<title>Ghostwritten articles funded by Wyeth overstated benefits and downplayed harms</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/09/08/ghostwritten-articles-funded-by-wyeth-overstated-benefits-and-downplayed-harms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hitchcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open-access article published in PLOS Medicine yesterday, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor in the Department of Physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC, presents an article describing the ways in which the pharmaceutical industry used a medical education &#038; communication company to produce ghostwritten articles that inserted marketing messages into articles published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next YAZ?</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/05/07/the-next-yaz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the flood of media commemorating the 50th anniversary of FDA approval of the birth control pill, this story from the Washington Post about its newest iteration may just slide under your radar: FDA approves new birth control pill  from Bayer.
Bayer, as you may recall, is the manufacturer of Yaz and Yasmin, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Now, Your Genes Belong to You</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2010/04/06/for-now-your-genes-belong-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by Barbara A. Brenner Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action
One of the saddest aspects of capitalism is that companies think they can and should own anything they get their hands on. Some time ago, they started obtaining patents on human genes, including two genes implicated in breast cancer: BRCA1 and BRCA2.
 The company that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Lacks Health Literacy?</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2009/12/18/who-lacks-health-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard the news that 23 hormone replacement therapy lawsuits filed by women diagnosed with breast cancer were dismissed by a New York judge this week. Judge Martin Shulman granted Pfizer&#8217;s motion to dismiss for two reasons: the plaintiff&#8217;s delayed filing exceeded the the three-year statute of limitations in New York, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“You can’t bias a jury with the truth”</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2009/12/16/%e2%80%9cyou-can%e2%80%99t-bias-a-jury-with-the-truth%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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That was Zoe Littlepage&#8217;s response to Pfizer&#8217;s request to a judge that her law firm remove this video press release about Pfizer&#8217;s malfeasance regarding cancer risk of Prempro, their menopause hormone therapy drug. The motion reads, in part, &#8220;Plaintiff’s counsel should be compelled to remove this video from the Internet and refrain from making any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Menopause</title>
		<link>http://menstruationresearch.org/2009/12/13/marketing-menopause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Kissling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pretty good essay in this weekend&#8217;s New York Times (online here Saturday, in print Sunday in the Business section) about how hard Big Pharma has worked to market menopause as an estrogen deficiency disease. In addition to discussion of Wyeth&#8217;s advertising campaigns, the article mentions the firm&#8217;s contract with DesignWrite, a company drug [...]]]></description>
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