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Details for Patent: 6,962,908


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Summary for Patent: 6,962,908
Title: Oral pharmaceutical products containing 17 .beta.-estradiol-3-lower alkanoate, method of administering the same and process of preparation
Abstract:A pharmaceutical dosage unit for oral administration to a human female comprising a therapeutically effective amount of 17.beta.-estradiol-3-lower alkanoate, most preferably 17.beta.-estradiol-3-acetate, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for treating a human female in need of 17.beta.-estradiol and a contraceptive method by oral administration of the pharmaceutical dosage unit and a method of preparing a pharmaceutical composition that may be used to form the pharmaceutical dosage unit of the invention.
Inventor(s): Aloba; Oluwole T. (Morristown, NJ), deVries; Tina M. (Long Valley, NJ)
Assignee: Warner Chilcott Company Inc. (Fajardo, PR)
Application Number:10/023,748
Patent Claim Types:
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Composition; Compound; Dosage form; Formulation;

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