Article: IMPORTATION APPROVED FOR INFERTILITY DRUGS

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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