I do like the name of this group...don't mess with our HRT...studies would be helpful, especially since the reports came out about some of the replacements increasing the risk of cancer, strokes, etc....would be nice to have substantiated documentation on whether or not the natural approaches have benefit. BD
Last week the HOME (Hands Off My Estrogens!) Coalition, a group based in tiny Edinburg, Va., placed a full-page ad in five newspapers, including USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, accusing regulators of being hostile to "natural" hormonal medicines made according to a doctor's prescription by a compounding pharmacy.
A key ingredient in these made-to-order drugs is estri
ol, a form of estrogen that the coalition claims is safe and protects against breast cancer -- but that the FDA says is unapproved. On Jan. 7 the FDA sent letters to seven pharmacies across the country warning them that marketing claims about the safety and effectiveness of their products were "false and misleading" because they have never been proven. The agency also ordered the pharmacies to stop making products containing estriol. Mainstream physicians groups, including the Endocrine Society, applauded the enforcement action, as did the National Women's Health Network, a Washington-based advocacy group.
Compounding pharmacies, Allina added, are not required to meet the same manufacturing and purity standards as are drugmakers.
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