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"If they work, you stick with them."Although some compounded hormones are identical to FDA-regulated drugs, they don't have to carry a black-box warning.Wyeth petitioned the FDA to crack down on what it sees as illegal and potentially dangerous sales of compounded hormonesPharmacist Carol Peterson of Women's International says she wouldn't object to putting black- box warnings on her hormones.

And, Peterson says, she recognizes that bioidentical hormones have never been studied as rigorously as Wyeth's hormones.And, Dr.

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Utian, executive director of the North American Menopause Society says, when women come in the office brandishing computer printouts and asking for prescriptions for bioidentical hormones, "the truth is there are a lot of physicians who just don't have time to argue." Printer friendly | Email this story Glossary According to the Women's International Web site, bioidentical hormones "are 'natural' to the human body," leading many women to assume they are safer than drug companies' hormones.A "black box" warning is the strongest type of wa...

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