Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Theratech, Inc.

Actavis, Inc.

Norman A Mazer

Theresa Rosario-Jansen

Charles D Ebert

Srinivasan Venkateshwaran

Dinesh C Patel

The present invention provides compositions, methods, and kits for improving health in a woman having elevated SHBG levels, or who is receiving oral estrogen supplementation, by non-orally administering an effective amount of an androgenic steroid. Further, the present invention provides compositions, methods, and kits for coadministering an effective amount of an orally administered estrogen and an effective amount of a non-orally administered androgenic steroid for women in need of estrogen supplementation.

Administration of non-oral androgenic steroids to women

A method of providing testosterone replacement therapy to a woman in need of such therapy comprising applying a testosterone-delivering patch to the skin of said woman which patch transdermally delivers 50 to 500 .mu.g/day of testosterone to the woman.

Methods for providing testosterone and optionally estrogen replacement

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Norman A Mazer