Welcome to Rosam Franklin University College of Pharmacy Top 200 Drugs podcast.

This podcast is produced by the pharmacy faculty members to supplement study material for students learning the top 200 drugs.

We're hoping that our real-life clinical pearls and discussions from practicing pharmacists

will help you study for your next drug quiz.

And now on to the show.

Welcome to week 10 of Rosalind Franklin University's Top 200 Dr. Podcast, spring edition.

I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane.

And I'm Dr. Weatherton.

And initially, Dr. Weatherton and I were going to talk about women's health.

I mean, who could be better experts?

But we figured we should probably have some female professors join in the conversation.

Good idea.

So joining now, it's Dr. Patel and Dr. Petty. So to kick things off, we're going to start

with conjugated estrogen, and there's two different brand names to know with this product, Premarin and Siniston.

Where does Premarin come from? Preparin might be the best brand name on the market. So Prem Premarin as a preparation comes from pregnant mare's

urine. And a mare is a female horse. Pregnant, mare's urine, Permanorin. So because of that,

some patients prefer to use the non-horse urine variety of tablet, which is senestin, which is of plant-based

origin. So what are conjugated estrogens used for?

They're mainly used for hormone replacement therapy, so obviously to treat the symptoms of

menopause. And those symptoms can be hot flashes or vaginal atrophy, and even symptoms of

vaginal atrophy leading to atrophic vaginitis.

And so these are essentially just estrogens.

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