Word: premarin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to see why. Storefront signs in Los Algodones advertise 28 tablets of Prozac for $31.60, vs. $69.95 in the U.S. The estrogen supplement Premarin costs $6.50 for 42 tablets, compared with $30. A bottle of 90 10-mg tablets of Valium retails for $8.75, instead...
...research reveals the pros and cons of estrogen, the therapy's popularity has flowed and ebbed like some sort of national hormonal cycle. Wilson's book did wonders for the sale of Premarin (a form of estrogen made from -- and named for -- a pregnant mare's urine). But estrogen use plummeted after 1975, when studies revealed that women taking the hormone had up to a 14-fold increased risk of uterine cancer. Reports of a 30% increased risk of breast cancer scared away many others...
...normal and has been experienced since time immemorial?" Well, yes -- Japanese women, for example, don't even have a word for "hot flash" -- but never mind. Menopause is a swamp of pathology, in Sheehy's view, curable with a positive attitude and, in appropriate cases, a lifetime supply of Premarin...