Paper in Journal of Sexual Medicine Cites Need for FDA-Approved Testosterone Treatment to Replace Growing Off-Label Use

A study to be published in the July 2009 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine reports that U.S. physicians wrote two million prescriptions a year for testosterone in 2006 and 2007, representing a significant increase since 2004. Importantly, 21% of the prescriptions written for male testosterone products were for women. Furthermore, the article notes that these statistics do not include the large number of prescriptions written for compounded testosterone formulations, a practice that has been criticized by the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, among others.

In their paper "Approved Hormonal Treatment for HSDD: An...

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