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She is seeking in excess of $75,000 in damages.

About 3,600 lawsuits nationwide have been filed against Wyeth, Pfizer and other makers of hormone replacement drugs.

The bulk of the lawsuits have been consolidated, by multidistrict litigation, before U.S.

District Judge William Wilson Jr., in Little Rock, Ark.

That's the case with Lamar's lawsuit, and the judge some time ago issued a gag order against attorneys speaking publicly about the cases, said Lamar's attorney, R.

Deryl Edwards Jr., of Joplin, Mo., The first hormone replacement therapy lawsuit could get under way next summer in federal court, according to Drug Injury Watch, a Web site sponsored by plaintiff's attorney Thomas Lamb, of Wilmington, N.C.

"Through a massive and decades-long marketing and advertising campaign, Wyeth convinced doctors and the public that menopause is a disease requiring drug treatment rather than the natural process of aging," according to Lamar's lawsuit.

By the mid-1970s, more than 30 million prescriptions for Premarin were being written annually, making the estrogen product the fifth most prescribed drug in the United States, according to the lawsuit.

Studies linked estroge...

And Clue and Izzy.

But not all arrived at the farm, Locket's Meadow, as foals.

Others were urine-producing mares on Canadian farms until a few years ago, when a government-funded national health study revealed serious health risks associated with Premarin and But all 14 of Schurman's PMU horses have one thing in common, she says: Were it not for a nationwide network of horse rescuers, they and countless others would have been butchered long ago, then digested by diners everywhere from Mexico to Japan.

The PMU industry says otherwise.

On their Premarin and Under "Important Safety Information," it says "estrogens increase the chances of getting cancer of the uterus," and that estrogens, whether combined with progestin (a steroid hormone) or not, "may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and blood clots" and "may increase your risk of dementia." What they really mean is that Premarin and These risks were highlighted in a Women's Health Initiative study on the effects of estrogen as well as estrogen plus progestin, the findings of which were released in 2002 and 2004, respecti...

And just as there are very few black-and-white issues in medicine, the recommendation for stopping hormone therapy is probably not the right answer for all women.

There may be some women who need hormone therapy for some period of time after menopause.

The right combination and the right duration can only be determined with a good dialogue between a woman and her doctor.

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