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Yeast Infections (Therapy)

Women To Get 3-Day Yeast Infection Drug Without Prescription

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 8th, 1996

Women will soon be able to buy a nonprescription medicine for yeast infections that takes just three days to work instead of seven.

Femstat 3 was switched from prescription-only to an over-the-counter medicine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just before Christmas 1995. Every other OTC medicine for vaginal yeast infections requires seven days of treatment.

Manufactured by Switzerland's Roche Holding Ltd., the drug will be sold in the United States by Procter & Gamble. The company said December 27, 1995, that Femstat would be on store shelves by spring 1996, but it had not yet set a price.

Femstat contains the...

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