Recent news on Prempro

My Turn: Risks of estrogen replacement therapy  -  25 May 2007
BurlingtonFreePress.com,These studies documented the cut off of the huge Women's Health Initiative study of women who took PremPro. The study ended because scientists could not

Pfizer Unit Failed to Warn of Drug Risk, Jury Says (Update2)  -  May 15, 2007
BloombergJurors also ruled that Wyeth did properly warn of the risks of its hormone drugs Premarin and Prempro. It was Wyeth's third win in six trials over the drugs

Statement from Attorney James Morris of Brent Coon & Associates ...  -  May 17, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),While Wyeth escaped liability after two previous losses in Philadelphia finding Premarin and Prempro defective, the finding against Pfizer affirmed Wyeth

UPDATE 1-Wyeth says wins Philadelphia hormone therapy trial  -  May 15, 2007
ReutersWyeth faces some 5000 lawsuits over HRT drugs Premarin and Prempro. The drugs remain on the market, even though a major government-sponsored health study

Wyeth Turns to Menopause Pills After Hormone Debacle (Update3)  -  May 3, 2007
BloombergSales of Wyeth's Premarin and Prempro hormones evaporated after a US study in 2002 linked the pills to breast cancer, heart attacks and strokes.

JS LETTER: Physician urges alternatives  -  May 13, 2007
Freeport Journal-Standard,The 2002 Women's Health Initiative linked Premarin and Prempro to life-threatening health risks including breast cancer, stroke, and heart attack,

Decline in breast cancer screening  -  May 14, 2007
Seattle Post Intelligencer,In 2000, about 62 million women used hormone replacement therapy, mainly Wyeth's Premarin and Prempro. By 2005, only 18 million women used them,

Meta-Analysis Links Rosiglitazone (Avandia) to Risk of Myocardial ...  -  May 21, 2007
MedPage Today,To put those data in perspective, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which used patient-level data, found that use of Prempro was associated with a 29%

Wyeth's Guayama, Puerto Rico plant gets positive reclassification ...  -  May 9, 2007
Houston Chronicle,Wyeth makes the antidepressant Effexor and women's health products such as contraceptives and the menopause treatments Premarin and Prempro.

Breast cancer rate declines with lower use of HRT  -  May 8, 2007
Asbury Park Press,For years, many physicians encouraged women to take drugs like Premarin, Provera or Prempro as soon as they began having hot flashes.

Hormone replacement therapy increases risk of breast cancer  -  May 2, 2007
TopCancerNews.com,Wyeth, maker of Premarin and Prempro -- two forms of hormone therapy -- continues to caution women against drawing any conclusions about HRT and breast

Wyeth CFO Kenneth Martin leaving in June  -  Apr 27, 2007
Hemscott,...which makes the antidepressant Effexor and women's health products such as contraceptives and the menopause treatments Premarin and Prempro,

Hormone therapy risks rise with age  -  Apr 25, 2007
Asbury Park Press,The Women's Health Initiative in 2002 reported that Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin, raised postmenopausal women's risk for heart attack,

Pharma Sector: Few Newsmakers Of The Week - Ista, Wyeth, Bristol ...  -  May 12, 2007
Trading Markets,After Wyeth's fall from grace over its harmful hormonal therapies, Premarin and Prempro indicated for the relief of hot flashes and night sweats,

Wyeth Wins Philadelphia Hormone Therapy Trial  -  May 16, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Premarin(R) (conjugated estrogens tablets USP) and Prempro(TM) (conjugated estrogens/medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets) are approved by the US Food and

Wyeth Is Still a Big Pharma Value Play  -  May 15, 2007
Barron's (subscription)Sales of Premarin and Prempro, once major revenue sources, plunged after a 2002 study linked hormone-replacement therapies (HRT) to a heightened risk of

FDA Reinspects Wyeth's Puerto Rico Plant  -  May 9, 2007
Forbes,Wyeth makes the antidepressant Effexor and women's health products such as contraceptives and menopause treatments Premarin and Prempro.

Wyeth's Guayama, Puerto Rico plant gets positive reclassification ...  -  May 9, 2007
Forbes,Wyeth makes the antidepressant Effexor and women's health products such as contraceptives and the menopause treatments Premarin and Prempro.

FDA reinspects Wyeth's Puerto Rico plant  -  May 9, 2007
Euro2day,Wyeth makes the antidepressant Effexor and women''s health products such as contraceptives and menopause treatments Premarin and Prempro.

Physician included on its and also period.  -  May 8, 2007
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Mammograms reduce breast cancer cases?  -  May 6, 2007
Food Consumer,According to Bostob.com, sales of Wyeth's Preparin and Prempro, which are used for the hormone replacement therapy and once generated $2 billion a year,

Hormones vs. Alzheimer’s?  -  May 5, 2007
Health24.com,The study was funded by the US National Institutes of Health and Wyeth, a pharmaceutical company that makes Prempro, a hormone therapy.

Study: Breast cancer drop tied to 2d factor  -  May 3, 2007
Boston Globe,Prescriptions for Wyeth's Premparin and Prempro, which once generated $2 billion annually, plunged 74 percent from 2000 to 2006, sales data show.

Study: Many Factors In Breast Cancer Drop  -  May 3, 2007
CBS News,That's when a large, federally funded trial of the estrogen and progestin combination treatment Prempro was stopped early because of evidence of an

AAN: New Analysis Reverses Thinking on Estrogen and Alzheimer's  -  May 3, 2007
Psychiatric Times,...who reported using either conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) alone or estrogen plus progesterone (Prempro) prior to their enrollment in the study.

Hormonal Changes  -  May 1, 2007
The INDsider,...postmenopausal patients stopped taking hormones in droves, drastically reducing prescriptions for popular therapies Premarin and Prempro from 61 million

Leading Women's Health Doc from HER Place Launches 'Straight Truth ...  -  May 1, 2007
Emediawire (press release),80 to 85 percent are given oral Premarin pills (a mixture of horse estrogens) or Prempro (horse estrogens plus a potent synthetic progestin).

Sweet smell of success  -  Apr 30, 2007
ic Newcastle.co.uk,She clearly loves to hear her hooves rattle, is a two-time course-and-distance winner and must go close in the Prempro Racing Handicap (5.10) with the

TS Wiley Testifed Before the Special Committee on Aging at the US ...  -  Apr 26, 2007
Fast Pitch! (press release)Since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stopped the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) in 2003 because the synthetic hormones – Premarin and PremPro were

TS Wiley to Testify Before the Special Committee on Aging at the ...  -  Apr 26, 2007
Emediawire (press release),Since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stopped the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 2003 because the synthetic hormones - Premarin and PremPro were

TS Wiley to Testify Before the Special Committee on Aging at the ...  -  26 Apr 2007
PR Web (press release),Since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stopped the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 2003 because the synthetic hormones - Premarin and PremPro were

Reno woman who sued pharmaceutical firm dies  -  Apr 25, 2007
Reno Gazette Journal,Carol McCreary, 59, filed a lawsuit against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the maker of menopause-treatment drug Prempro, for causing her breast cancer.

Hormone therapy risks rise with age  -  Apr 25, 2007
Asbury Park Press,The Women's Health Initiative in 2002 reported that Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin, raised postmenopausal women's risk for heart attack,

Wyeth Comments On Report On Hormone Therapy And Ovarian Cancer ...  -  Apr 23, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),PREMPRO® (conjugated estrogens/medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets) is used after menopause in women with a uterus to reduce moderate to severe hot flashes;

Despite Medical Journals' TKO, HRT Still Not DOA  -  Apr 24, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,Wyeth--the main pusher of HRT--had to close a manufacturing plant in Rouses Point, NY and eliminate 15% of its sales force as Prempro plummeted 76% and

Prempro Likely Caused Breast Cancer  -  Apr 3, 2007
Lawyers and Settlements,Raleigh, NC: The year that Prempro's label warned of an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and breast cancer was the same year that Linda

Wyeth Responds to Special Report Published in New England Journal ...  -  Apr 19, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),What is the most important information you should know about PREMARIN (estrogens) or PREMPRO (a combination of estrogens and a progestin)?

Wyeth's Off-Label Promotion of Prempro Leads to 5200 Lawsuits  -  Mar 30, 2007
Lawyers and Settlements,Washington, DC: For many years, Wyeth led women to believe that taking Prempro, with the combined hormones of estrogen and progestin, would not only relieve

New report offers hope that Marin breast cancer rate could keep ...  -  Apr 20, 2007
Marin Independent-Journal,The hormone connection came because the Women's Health Initiative, a large federal study examining the health effects of Prempro, the most popular drug

Docs Find More Links Between Cancer and Hormone Therapy  -  Apr 19, 2007
Wired NewsThe connection was established in 2002, when a study of Prempro, the most popular menopause drug, was halted it appeared to increase risks of both heart

No apparent increase in coronary heart disease for women who ...  -  Apr 4, 2007
News-Medical.net,PREMARIN and PREMPRO are the most widely prescribed hormone therapy products in the United States and offer significant clinical experience and the largest

Link between breast cancer and HRT  -  Apr 20, 2007
PRESS TV,The two most common HRT drugs in the US are PREMARIN (estrogen only) and PREMPRO (a combination of estrogen and progestin). The use of the drugs has dropped

Drop in HRT use linked to decrease in breast cancer rates  -  Apr 19, 2007
News-Medical.net,Senior investigator Dr. Donald Berry says prescriptions for the two HRT medications Premarin and Prempro dropped from 61 million in 2001 to 21 million in

HRT Does Not Increase Heart Attack Risk Among Women In Their 50s ...  -  Apr 10, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),One of the studies involved women taking Wyeth's Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin, and the other involved women who had hysterectomies who

Studies cast hormones in darker light  -  Apr 18, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes top-selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study as overly speculative.

Earnings Preview: Wyeth  -  Apr 17, 2007
Forbes,In February, an Ohio woman won a jury award of $3 million in a case alleging Wyeth's hormone therapy replacement Prempro caused her breast cancer.

HRT scare questioned  -  Apr 8, 2007
News-Medical.net,One study involved women who had not had hysterectomies who took Prempro, a drug made by Wyeth that combines estrogen and progestins.

Health Risk to Older Women Is Seen in Hormone Therapy  -  Apr 5, 2007
New York Times,They took Prempro, a drug made by Wyeth that combines estrogen and progestins. The other involved women who had had a hysterectomy and who took estrogen

HRT ‘reduces the risk of heart disease’  -  Apr 9, 2007
The Herald,After these results were reported, the number of prescriptions written for two brands of oestrogen - Premarin and PremPro - dropped almost in half in the US

Hormone seminar set  -  Apr 12, 2007
Deseret News,2197 E. Fort Union Blvd. Artificial hormones such as Premarin, Prempro, Premphase and birth control pills can have life-threatening side effects.

Hormone treatment risk rises with age  -  Apr 9, 2007
Jackson Clarion Ledger,The Women's Health Initiative in 2002 reported Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin, raised postmenopausal women's risk for heart attack,

20 Million Fewer HRT Prescriptions Responsible For Sharp Decline ...  -  Apr 24, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...in the United States - Premarin and Prempro - having their steepest declines starting in 2002 and particularly in 2003 (62 million scripts in 2000,

Decrease In Breast Cancer Linked To Reduced Use Of Hormone ...  -  Apr 23, 2007
eMaxHealth.com,The two most commonly prescribed forms of HRT in the United States, Premarin® and Prempro™, had their steepest declines starting in 2002-2003 - from 61

The Decrease in Breast-Cancer Incidence in 2003 in the United States  -  Apr 18, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),Panel B shows the number of prescriptions reported in the United States for the combined estrogen–progestin preparation Prempro and the conjugated equine

Decrease in breast cancer incidence linked to drop in HRT  -  Apr 22, 2007
News-Medical.net,...in the United States - Premarin and Prempro - having their steepest declines starting in 2002 and particularly in 2003 (62 million scripts in 2000,

April 2007 Big Pharma Litigation Update - Drugs Part I  -  Apr 5, 2007
Lawyers and Settlements,On August 18, 2006, Bloomberg reported that Wyeth was facing 5000 lawsuits over the menopause drug, Prempro, alleging that Wyeth misled the plaintiffs

Bio-Identical Hormones : A new biologically compatible alternative ...  -  Apr 21, 2007
Fuerteventura Digital,Synthetic HRT (Prempro, Premarin to name a few) was the standard in hormone replacement therapy until 2002, when a study was reported that showed women

New research confirms breast cancer drop and link to menopause ...  -  Apr 20, 2007
North County Times,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes top-selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study. Company spokesman Dr. Joseph Camardo said hormone

How Corrupt is Malcolm Gladwell?  -  Mar 31, 2007
CounterPunch,...(Love, a distinguished clinician and UCLA professor, had been publicizing The Nurse's Health Study finding that women taking Wyeth's Prempro had a higher

Decrease in Breast Cancer Rates Related to Reduction in Use of ...  -  Apr 20, 2007
PressZoom (press release),The two most commonly prescribed forms of HRT in the United States, Premarin® and Prempro™, had their steepest declines starting in 2002-2003 — from 61

Decline in Breast Cancer Incidence Sustained in 2004, Study Says ...  -  Apr 20, 2007
Kaiser network.org,Joseph Camardo of Wyeth, which manufactures the HRT product Prempro, noted that there was a 20% decline in hormone prescriptions in 2004 but that there was

Study links fewer breast cancer cases to reduced hormone use  -  Apr 20, 2007
Waterloo Record,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes top-selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study. Company spokesperson Dr. Joseph Camardo said

Hormone use, cancer linked  -  Apr 20, 2007
Wilmington Morning Star,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes top-selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study. Company spokesman Joseph Camardo said hormone

Hormones can raise cancer risk  -  Apr 19, 2007
Cay Compass,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes top–selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study as overly speculative. Company spokesman Dr. Joseph

2 studies link hormone use to higher risk for breast and ovarian ...  -  Apr 19, 2007
International Herald Tribune,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes the hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study as overly speculative.

Hormones can raise breast cancer risk  -  Apr 19, 2007
The Advocate,Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes top-selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study as overly speculative. Company spokesman Dr. Joseph

Sector Snap: Big Pharma  -  Apr 19, 2007
Forbes,Wyeth makes the hormone pills for hot flashes Prempro and Premarin, which thousands of women claim in lawsuits to have caused their cancer.

REGIONAL: DECREASE IN BREAST CANCER LINKED TO DECLINE OF HRT  -  Apr 19, 2007
CBS 5,More modern hormone replacement treatments containing both estrogen and progestin are most commonly prescribed as Premarin and Prempro.

Wyeth 1st-quarter profit increases 12 percent  -  Apr 19, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune,Wyeth, which makes top-selling hormone pills Prempro and Premarin, criticized the study as speculative, asserting that the new research does not account for

Not your mother's menopause  -  27 Mar 2007
Indianapolis Star,The results of a 2002 Women's Health Initiative found that older women -- with an average age of 63 -- using Prempro, a mixture of estrogens and a progestin

SC women sue drug firm in hormone therapy case  -  Mar 1, 2007
The State,Land blames her cancer on a hormone therapy drug, called Prempro, that she started taking more than three years earlier. She is among more than 100 SC women

Wyeth Backs FY07 EPS Outlook; Re-inspection Of Guayama Facility ...  -  Feb 28, 2007
Trading Markets,Wyeth added a boldface warning on Prempro and on Premarin in 2003, after preliminary findings of a clinical study of 16000 women indicated that women who

Study: Menopause hormone patch may be safer  -  Mar 6, 2007
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader,The study tested Wyeth’s Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people believe that estrogens

Study: Hormone Patch Safer Than Pill  -  Feb 25, 2007
Forbes,The study tested Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people )'s Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses.

Scared Of Hormone Pills? Try Patches, Study Says  -  Feb 26, 2007
KTVU.com,The study tested Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people believe that estrogens

Suit alleges hormones caused breast cancer  -  Feb 27, 2007
OregonLive.com,The women and their Portland attorney, Michael Williams, say they believe the medication Prempro, prescribed for symptoms of menopause, is responsible for

Hormone patch safer than pill, French study reports  -  Feb 26, 2007
Record-Searchlight (subscription),The study tested Wyeth’s Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people think that estrogens

Study says hormone patches beat pills for blood clot risk  -  Feb 25, 2007
Online Athens (subscription),The study tested Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people think estrogens from

Study: hormone patches, gels better than pills  -  Feb 26, 2007
Xinhua,Before the Women's Health study, Prempro and Premarin accounted for half of the hormones she prescribed. Now they account for about one-fourth,

Clots less likely with hormone patches  -  Feb 25, 2007
Washington Times,The study tested Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogen made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people think that estrogens

Hot flashes tough for executives  -  Mar 7, 2007
Asbury Park Press,Forty-one percent had used hormone pills such as Premarin or Prempro to control symptoms. About half of the women reported lack of sexual desire and painful

Hormones seen less risky in patch or gel  -  Feb 27, 2007
Newsday,A spokesman for Wyeth, maker of the bestselling pills Premarin and Prempro, couldn't be reached for comment on the study, which came out on a holiday.

Hormone patches pose lower risk  -  Feb 26, 2007
Canada.com,The study tested Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people believe estrogens from

Study: Hormone patch safer than pill  -  Feb 27, 2007
The Kindred Times,Premarin and Prempro remain top sellers in the United States, according to IMS Health, a drug marketing information firm.

French Study Finds Skin Patches Might Lower Risk of Hormone Use  -  Feb 26, 2007
International News Service,The study tested Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people contend that estrogens

Portland breast cancer survivors call for ban on hormone drug  -  Feb 26, 2007
kgw.com (subscription),The women announced along with their attorney that they wanted a federal ban on the hormone replacement drug Prempro and its active ingredients,

A Patch Could Offer New Hope For Menopausal Women  -  Feb 25, 2007
CBS 4,That study tested Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses. Some people believe that estrogens

Wyeth Expects Longer FDA Inspection  -  Feb 28, 2007
Forbes,The reaffirmation comes as Wyeth is defending about 5200 federal and state lawsuits over allegations that its hormone therapy replacement Prempro causes

Hormone Patch Far Safer Than A Pill  -  Feb 26, 2007
E Canada Now,The study tested Wyeth’s Prempro and Premarin. 271 women ages 45 to 70 who suffered blood clots were compared to 610 similar women without clots.

Hormone patch could be safer than pills in relieving the symptoms ...  -  Feb 26, 2007
News-Medical.net,The study tested Prempro and Premarin, made by Wyeth, both of which contain synthetic estrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses.

Pharma Sector: Few Newsmakers Of The Week - Basilea Glaxo ...  -  Feb 25, 2007
Trading Markets,Tuesday, the Philadelphia jury ruled that Wyeth should pay $3 million to an Ohio woman who claimed Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy drug prempro liable

NJ business briefs  -  Mar 23, 2007
NorthJersey.com,MADISON -- Wyeth won dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed her breast cancer was caused by the hormone-replacement drugs Prempro and

Wyeth (WYE) Updates Ongoing Litigation  -  Mar 22, 2007
StreetInsider.com (subscription),2003-0261, on the grounds, inter alia, that the labeling and warnings for PREMPRO and PREMARIN were adequate as a matter of law.

UPDATE 1-Wyeth maintains 2007 earnings forecast  -  Feb 28, 2007
Reuters...liability lawsuits in US courts from about 8400 women who claim to have been harmed by Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy drugs, Prempro and Premarin.

Hormone Patches and Gels Safer for Women Than Pills  -  Feb 26, 2007
Associated Content,Wyeth's Prempro and Premarin were among the drugs tested. These drugs are synthetic hormones produced from the urine of pregnant horses and most researchers

Study: Hormone patch safer than pills  -  Feb 26, 2007
Columbus Dispatch,The new study tested Wyeth’s Prempro and Premarin, which contain synthetic estrogens. Some people think that estrogens from plant sources are closer to what

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