FDA Warns Pharmacies On Hormone Claims

Good! About time !

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1199...googlenews_wsj

>FDA Warns Pharmacies
>On Hormone Claims
>
>The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on pharmacies that sell customized
>hormone mixtures as antidotes for menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, saying
>they are being promoted with false claims about their benefits and contain an
>ingredient the agency hadn't approved.

<snip>

>Compounding pharmacies said the agency had gone beyond its authority in attacking
>the use of estriol. "We are greatly troubled, to put it lightly," said L.D. King, executive
>director of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, a trade group.
>He said that the majority of his members' compounded hormone mixtures include
>estriol.

Huh? So the pharmacies are selling ready made mixtures off the shelf.
Next thing we will hear is that it is the pharmacies that tell the
doctors how to write the prescription. But then we already knew that
didn't we. What a scam.

Kathryn

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kathryn wrote:
> Good! About time !
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1199...googlenews_wsj
>
>
>>FDA Warns Pharmacies
>>On Hormone Claims
>>
>>The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on pharmacies that sell customized
>>hormone mixtures as antidotes for menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, saying
>>they are being promoted with false claims about their benefits and contain an
>>ingredient the agency hadn't approved.
>
>
> <snip>
>
>>Compounding pharmacies said the agency had gone beyond its authority in attacking
>>the use of estriol. "We are greatly troubled, to put it lightly," said L.D. King, executive
>>director of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, a trade group.
>>He said that the majority of his members' compounded hormone mixtures include
>>estriol.
>
>
> Huh? So the pharmacies are selling ready made mixtures off the shelf.
> Next thing we will hear is that it is the pharmacies that tell the
> doctors how to write the prescription. But then we already knew that
> didn't we. What a scam.
>

They have TriEst and BiEst ready made, or they compound from scratch
according to rx, which is how my rx's have been since I went off TriEst.

My endo believes estrone is damaging. He's a full time academic researcher.

Susan