Article 5YVXZ Scottish medicines body to reassess menopause drug amid HRT shortage

Scottish medicines body to reassess menopause drug amid HRT shortage

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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
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Davina McCall documentary highlights benefits and postcode lottery of previously rejected utrogestan

A sought-after hormone replacement therapy is being reassessed for use in Scotland as the TV presenter and menopause campaigner Davina McCall revealed a postcode lottery in its prescription across the UK.

Amid an ongoing supply crisis of HRT products, McCall spoke to specialists about the benefits of utrogestan, a body identical" micronised progesterone, which is derived from plants, in her Channel 4 documentary Sex, Mind and Menopause, broadcast on Monday.

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