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Premarin Alone Increases Strokes

For nearly three decades the drug companies were convincing doctors that estrogen was the fountain of youth for women and that virtually all of them need to be on it. They sure convinced me. In fact in the mid '80s, shortly after finishing residency training, I was a paid speaker for the drug companies on the benefits of estrogen for osteoporosis. I reviewed the literature very carefully and could recite it backward and forward to "prove" that estrogen worked. Well guess what? The proper...