Schering uses German medical association to promote HRT

Several thousand German gynaecologists have been the target of a campaign promoting postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) which claimed that the negative findings of a major US study were of “highly limited relevance” to the German population. The message was, in part, disguised as the official statements of a large professional organisation for gynaecologists, the Berufsverband der Frauenärzte.

The campaign came after the sudden ending of part of the Women's Health Initiative's study into HRT in the …