DOCUMENTS:
LupronSUQS (Serious Unanswered QuestionS)
USA Draft Document
Millican 3-27-03 written Congressional Testimony re: risks of lupron & ART
Millican 3-27-03 oral Congressional Testimony re: risks of lupron & ART
Millican's 04-02 Testimony for Senate HELP Committee Briefing on risks of lupron & superovulation/cloning
9-04-01 Millican Comment to HELP Committee on ESCR
Gena Corea's Testimony for Millican's '97 Medical Malpractice Tribunal
Relevant portions of Millican's '98 brief in appeal to MA SJC
Millican's Read for Our Bodies Our Selves (OBOS) '96 Update on ART
'06 Millican Comments to UK ESCR Forum
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Massachusetts (MA.) Bill & Millican Testimonies (discussing lupron's risks in ART):
MA. House #1833
MA '92 Testimony
MA '93 Testimony
MA '94 Testimony
MA '95 Testimony
MA '96 Testimony
MA '97 Testimony
MA '98 Testimony
MA '99 Testimony
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LETTERS:
09-17-09 Letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg requesting an investigation into lupron and removal from market
09-17-09 Letter to FDA Deputy Commissioner Sharfstein requesting an investigation into lupron and removal from market
10-29-09 DHHS response
11-17-06: email to Governor-Elect Deval Patrick re: protections for egg donors in ESCR (never answered)
11-2-06: email to Candidate Patrick detailing costs to MA. from IVF harm
10-31-06 email & 10-30-06 response to/from Candidate Patrick
10-11-06 email to Candidate Patrick
09-15-06 email to Candidate Deval Patrick (for Governor of MA): "Women get sick FROM ESCR"
06-01-04 Letter to Archbishop O'Malley
12-12-02 Letter to BCBS asking BCBS to investigate its costs associated with lupron
12-20-02 Response from BCBS
08-21-01 FDA response to my legal brief & 08-18-00 letter to US Attorney (note narrow focus of response, and minimalization of lupron's risks)
07-10-01 Letter to President Bush
10-22-01 Response from White House
8-18-00 Letter to US Attorneys' Office asking the US to investigate the adverse health effects of lupron
4-20-00 Letter to Endometriosis Association: A Plea for help with lupron medicolegal advocacy (never answered)
1-29-00 Letter to FDA
3-24-00 Response from FDA
5-12-99 Letter to National Women's Health Network (never answered). See NWHN's 11-08 Lupron Cover Story
03-03-99 Letter To Senator Kennedy (cc'd to ALL Senators) asking for investigation into lupron
Senator McCain's Response to 03-03-99 Letter
12-18-97 Response from WHO
6-19-95 Letter to MA. Attorney General
1994: Questions/Answers to/from Judy Norsigian/DHHS about lupron
10-4-94 Letter to FDA
11-23-94 Response from FDA
11-25-94 Letter to Senator Kennedy
10-1-94 Letter to Public Citizen
10-31-94 Response from Public Citizen
2-16-94 Letter to MA Attorney General
3-8-94 Response from MA Attorney General
3-21-94 Letter to MA Attorney General
4-09-92 Response from FDA
2-26-92 Letter to FDA
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The majority of 'Documents' and 'Letters' to the left pertain to lupron and the field of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), but information regarding the problems with the initial endometriosis clinical trials can be found within my 'USA Draft Document'. It might be useful for women to understand the problems the prostate cancer clinical trials faced as well, therefore I would suggest reading the 'male approval' section in this document also.
At present, this page contains mostly my letters, their responses, and my MA. and Congressional testimonies pertaining to the risks of lupron and ART. Beginning in 1992, I attempted to ask questions and bring attention to the various problems involved with this issue. With a few exceptions, most of the responses fail to directly answer the questions, but I'll be putting these letters and responses in the public domain to illustrate just one woman's attempt to ask these questions. (Perhaps you too have written questions to the very same people and agencies that I have).
My horrendous experience at the hands of the Fertility Industry brought me face to face with a totally unregulated field (no standards, no laws, only minimum guidelines that may or may not be followed), and I became involved in drafting a piece of legislation to correct these problems (MA. H. #1833). This bill was opposed by the Fertility Industry and eventually died, but my MA. testimonies (1992 - 1999) are a testament to the learning curve regarding the risks of lupron and ART: in '92 I thought IVF was an "admirable" technology ... but shortly thereafter, 'endocriminologist' was coined.
Other documents on this page are my comments concerning risks to women from embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), focusing on the risks from lupron/leuprolide.
This page is under construction.
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