This was forwarded to me by a freind - interesting reading...

Dear Reader,

The things they do to patients in the name of medicine...

Actually, it would be more accurate to say: The things they do to patients in the name of selling medicine...

A few years ago, researchers stumbled across an interesting phenomenon. Some women who took certain cancer drugs developed menopause-like hot flashes. But the hot flash side effect was less pronounced among patients who were also taking SSRI antidepressant drugs.