Bioidentical Hormones - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

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If this legislation passes, federal regulators, not the doctor, will decide what
medicines can be taken. I believe that it is fundamentally the right of the consumer to
choose and the practitioner to practice.
Among other things, the so-called Safe Drug Compounding Act would give the Food
and Drug Administration the power to:
* Broadly eliminate the availability of many critical, commonly compounded
medications that many patients rely on (most especially bio-identical hormones
for women).
* Determine when compounded medicines are needed - a decision that has always
been and should always be made by doctors.
* Restrict the compounded medications the doctor can prescribe even if he or she
determines the needfor them.
Among those left with little or no choice will be menopausal women and andropausal
men; the Autistic community, individuals living with HIV/AIDS; infants and young
children with conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); hospice and
nursing home patients; and people who are extremely allergic or sensitive to fillers, dyes,
and additives in medicines. And now we can add researchers with imagination like Dr.
Wright in Georgia and head trauma victims like the young man, whose life and mind was
saved by a Compounded bio-identical hormone. Please don't let this happen.