Prempro Hormone Replacement Therapy
date: label: date made
content: 2002
name: label: maker
content: Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced this Prempro brand hormone replacement therapy around 2002. The Prempro is in a white foil package with a red and gold label. The package contained a trademarked EZ Dial dispenser with 28 tablets. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was meant to relieve the hot flashes, night sweats, and physical discomfort associated with menopause. HRT pills were taken daily, and this package includes a trademarked EZ Dial dispenser. HRT was very popular during the 1990s, but in 2002 a Women’s Health Initiative study reported that HRT users were at increased risk of heart disease, blood clots, and breast cancer. The story had an immediate impact on the number of HRT prescriptions written, and the donor of this sample of Prempro stopped her hormone replacement therapy the day the news broke.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Birth Control
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Deborah Jean Warner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0308.1
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0308.1
label: accession number
content: 2002.0308
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical, hormone replacement therapy
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: conjugated estrogens, 0.625 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: medroxyprogesterone acetate, 2.5 mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 12 cm x 2.5 cm; 3 9/16 in x 4 3/4 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 7/8 in x 1 in; 8.89 cm x 12.3825 cm x 2.54 cm