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Ghostwritten articles helped sell hormones.

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If you or your mother became menopausal between the 1960s and 90s, you know that most women were pressured to take hormones from their first hot flash until their death. A friend joked that all women would be clutching a vial of Premarin on their deathbeds. Joking aside, all Network members should be proud to be part of the only national membership organization that consistently opposed estrogen for disease prevention

Since the 1970's, the Network told both women and doctors that the drug industry was producing biased articles that exaggerated hormone therapy's (HT's) benefits, minimized its risks, and misled physicians and patients. We pointed out the lack of data to support the claimed benefits of HT; we noted that HT increased the risk of blood clots and breast cancer. We criticized industry-biased articles that appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals, "pseudo-journals", and women's magazines. We decried the use of celebrities and physicians to tout hormone therapy.

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