update on bio identical hormones

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From: Virginia Hopkins [mailto:healthwatch@...]

Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:37 AM

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Subject: How to Stop Wyeth? It's and Goliath

VIRGINIA HOPKINS HEALTH WATCH

The Science of Alternative Medicine

Dear Reader,

In the last issue of the Health Watch (Will Wyeth Bully

<http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/vol4issue1.html> You out of Your

Estriol?), I wrote about the drug company Wyeth using the FDA to attack

pharmacies that offer natural hormones. I promised I'd let you know if any

group called for a specific petition to elected representatives asking the

FDA to leave our natural hormones-and specifically estriol-alone. Once again

P2C2, an action group for compounding pharmacies, has provided an

easy-to-use online petition: Oppose

<https://secure2.convio.net/iacprx/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage & page=User

Action & id=164 & JServSessionIdr004=s2klm1tib3.app7a> Wyeth & FDA Actions to

Limit BHRT Access!

I'm not wild about the copy on their petition, so if you have your own point

of view about it, please express it! If you have a personal experience you'd

like to share, all the better. If you have a political bent, express your

opinion politically. Assure your elected representative that this issue

really matters to you.

How to Get Goliath's Attention

I've been contemplating what it will take to get Wyeth to back off. While

it's important to let your elected representatives know your opinion, the

amount of money this mega-corporation hands out to politicians may outrank

citizen protest. Because didn't we just do this last spring? They're back at

it again.

What corporations care about most is profits and stock prices. How about a

boycott of Wyeth products? They have almost 80 products, and many of us are

probably using at least one. What if we examine their list of Wyeth Products

<http://www.wyeth.com/products> (http://www.wyeth.com/products), and then

next time we're shopping for a pain reliever (e.g. Advil) or a cold medicine

(e.g. Robitussin), or anything else pharmaceutical, choose another brand.

They also make a lot of pet medication products.

Now I have a quite a few readers, but it's not a drop in the bucket compared

to the millions of products Wyeth sells every month. This is a and

Goliath thing. But what if you forward this e-mail to three friends, and

they forward it to three friends and so forth? I believe strongly in the

power of grass roots movements, and with the power of e-mail, we might hit

their bottom line enough to at least make them go " ow! " Oh, and be sure to

call the Wyeth Investor Relations line-877-552-4744-and let them know that

you're boycotting their products because they're going after natural

hormones. That way they'll know what hit them.

Keep it natural,

Virginia Hopkins

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