This is related to BF, in that it discusses the influence of Big Pharma 
on women's health issues. http://www.thestar.com/living/article/252725
It begins by discussing the unprecedented drop in breast cancer rates 
once researchers raised questions about the safety of synthetic estrogen 
(and HRT) to "treat" menopause, and HCP stopped prescribing them as 
readily. The article then asks the question about why women have not 
reacted with great anger. "The question isn't even why, during all these 
years of running for the cure and raising money for research and 
"awareness," and wearing and promoting pink, women have at the very same 
time been swallowing HRT propaganda and pills that were causing breast 
cancer. The question is: Why aren't we mad as hell?" The cause of the 
"disconnect between women taking an activist role in fighting breast 
cancer while ingesting hormones that fuel it – and then giving up 
hormones but not getting angry about the way the drugs were prescribed 
and promoted, without evidence of their safety" is women's belief in 
medical care, but "other observers believe much of the confusion has 
been perpetrated by what Dr. Deborah Grady, head of the Women's Health 
Clinical Research Center, at the University of California, calls "the 
hormone-industrial complex" – Big Pharma and the constellation of 
businesses that feed off them."
Jo-Anne

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