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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1999
David Chung Hsia, Irvine, CA (US);
Thomas Chun Ho, Irvine, CA (US);
Domingo Yap Tan, Irvine, CA (US);
Fredric B. Weihmuller, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Corona, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided is an oral dosage form suitable to deliver a combined dosage of progesterone and which upon delivery through the gastrointestinal tract provides a blood concentration of from about 0.1 ng/ml to about 400 ng/ml progesterone; said dosage form comprising a combination that includes (a) a first solid form comprising from about 25 mg to about 500 mg micronized progesterone in a solid polyethylene glycol carrier having an average molecular weight of from about 1000 to 10,000 and constituting at least about 30% of said first solid form; and (b) a second solid form comprising an estrogen.