(Reuters Health) - Women who fill prescriptions for custom-blended hormone therapy may get capsules or creams that don't contain the correct ...
- Women who fill prescriptions for custom-blended hormone therapy may get capsules or creams that don't contain the correct amount of medicine, a recent study suggests.
For the current study, Frank Z. Stanczyk of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and colleagues tested prescriptions filled at 13 pharmacies for hormone capsules with 0.5mg of estradiol and 100mg of progesterone per gram and for creams with a similar hormone concentration.
Compounded hormone therapy requires a prescription, and may contain the same active ingredients - synthetic estrogen and progestogens - that are in the mass-produced versions. Pharmacists may mix in different inactive ingredients and offer different doses than the FDA-approved drugs. The study was sponsored by TherapeuticsMD, a Florida-based pharmaceutical company that makes menopausal hormone therapies for women.
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