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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: depo provera LONG
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.070017.17275@spdcc.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 07:00:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov6.070017.17275
- References: <68872@cup.portal.com> <168968A84.SURGDM@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <1992Nov5.190151.2943@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- In article <1992Nov5.190151.2943@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
- >The original poster thought she was prescribed depo provera "unofficially"
- >because she heard that the FDA had just approved the drug. I'm a bit
- >surprised that someone who "knows" (hey Steve!) hasn't responded, but here
- >is my two cents. I vaguely recall that the announcement last week was not
- >that the FDA had approved the drug, but that they were issuing warnings
- >about potential side-effects (which I assumed meant the drug had already
- >been approved for contraceptive purposes). However, this is just my
- >recollection based on a news blurb on the radio. I wasn't paying attention,
- >so I may be wrong :-).
-
- Depo-Provera has long been approved for purposes other than its use as
- contraceptive. My understanding is that it was approved for
- contraceptive use last week, but I wasn't paying too much attention
- either, because I was at Interop in San Francisco.
-
- As others have said here, it's perfectly possible and appropriate to
- administer an approved drug for an unapproved purpose--the FDA usually
- lags behind clinical practice in most situations concerning approval
- for new indications for already approved drugs. Depo-Provera has had a
- long history of use as a contraceptive in other countries.
-
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- Steve Dyer
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