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Article: IMPORTATION APPROVED FOR INFERTILITY DRUGS
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 28, 1995
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The Food and Drug Administration last week approved the temporary
importation of two widely used but scarce infertility drugs by
consumers and their doctors.
Pergonal and Metrodin are made by Serono Laboratories Inc. of
Switzerland. Both medications are used to stimulate the ovaries
during infertility treatment. Pergonal has been in extremely short
supply in the United States since December. Metrodin has been
difficult to obtain during the past several weeks.
Both shortages have forced doctors to halt or postpone therapy
unless the women they are treating can locate drugs at pharmacies
elsewhere. "We are delaying a lot of treatment," said Safa Rivka, an
infertility specialist at Columbia ...
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