Share this article Share this article ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A 2020 FDA-funded report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on the safety and utility of compounded hormones is compromised by potential bias, conflicts of interest and bad science—so says an independent, third-party analysis of the NASEM report released today. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) touted the NASEM report, which recommended restrictions on compounded hormone therapy, as "independent" and "comprehensive," but in fact it was neither. That's one of the key findings in the white paper by Dr. Alyson Wooten, a director at the nonpartisan Berkeley Research Group (BRG). The paper is titled