menopause..big market, big business, women getting the shaft

May 3, 2006 by  

Study Finds Few Therapies Work Well on Hot Flashes – New York Times

By DENISE GRADY
Published: May 3, 2006

For women who want a drug to ease menopausal hot
flashes but do not want to take hormones, certain antidepressants and
other medicines may help, researchers are reporting. But those
medicines have side effects, little is known about whether it is safe
to take them for a long time and they do not work as well as hormones.

My take…start all over. Forget the previous studies on hormone
therapy. One week they are valid, the next week they are not. Then it
was ‘replace HRT with anti-depressants’. Now those are ‘out’..at least
this week. The latest attack is against BHRT (bio-identical HRT) made
of natural compounds. And guess who is attacking in an attempt to stop
compounding pharmacies from filling BHRT prescriptions..Wyeth! So what
is the advice? Oh yeah…hot flashes and miserable menopausal symptoms
are ‘natural’.

"We hate to medicalize a natural process," Dr. Nelson said,
but she added that severe symptoms should not be dismissed. "We want to
take it seriously, but not everybody needs to be on prescription drugs
for it."

My response: its up to the individual – especially those who work in
a youth-culture work environment which is the plight of many
businesswomen. Going broke (or worse) because you can’t compete in the
workplace with younger workers is NOT NATURAL!). And what about Viagra?

Ads for impotence drugs get new focus

By Associated Press  |  May 3, 2006

Levitra and Viagra now have new campaigns that forgo the
provocative, depicting erectile dysfunction as a medical condition, not
simply a lifestyle concern.

Men have choice about their ‘natural process’..women should not relinquish theirs.

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