Skin patches are a new way to deliver medicine to patients. Today, many
medications are being administered topically, via the skin, rather than
orally or by injection. Hormone supplements, anti-depression, birth-control
medication, as well as treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other
disease prevention medications are being administered via a "skin patch."

Skin patches provide an alternative to common gastric irritation and they
are less likely to affect a patient's liver.

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