by Laura Wershler | Dec 10, 2009 | Birth Control, Health Care, Media, Menarche, Menopause, Menstruation, Newspapers, Ovulation
Can having too many menstrual cycles give you breast cancer? That’s what one might conclude from two unrelated articles that appeared in national newspapers this week. First was Nicholas D. Kristof’s Op-Ed in the New York Times. Kristof had recently...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Dec 8, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
Here’s one way that Canada shows some concern for risks to women’s health: the owner of a New Brunswick health food store was fined $7500 for smuggling a progesterone-laced cream from the U.S. The cream, called Aim Renewed Balance, is purported “to...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 23, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
There are more than 10,000 lawsuits against Wyeth/Pfizer regarding the link between PremPro and breast cancer. There have been 12 verdicts so far, and juries have awarded money to the plaintiffs in ten of those cases. The latest was announced today, in Donna Kendall...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 5, 2009 | Menopause, New Research, Pharmaceutical
Guest Post by Jerilynn Prior, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research As a clinician scientist with expertise in hormones and women’s health, I sit in Canada and look at the hype and dis-sing going on about “bio-identicals” in the USA and shake my head. If...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Nov 4, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
Even though the verdict regarding punitive damages awarded to Connie Barton in her suit against Prempro was sealed (as we wrote last week), the figure has leaked out. A Philadelphia jury awarded her $75 million in punitive damages, in addition to $3.7 million in...
by Elizabeth Kissling | Oct 27, 2009 | Law/Legal, Menopause, Pharmaceutical
Connie Barton, an Illinois woman who developed breast cancer after taking Prempro for menopausal symptoms, was awarded punitive damages by a jury in Philadelphia yesterday. The jury has already awarded her $3.7 million in compensatory damages, back in September, but...
