Over the past few weeks, the FDA has devoted lots of attention to compounding pharmacies, issuing two new guidance documents pertaining to their fundamental scope, a guidance document regarding ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As of the end of October, 28 deaths resulting from the use of poorly prepared compounded medications by a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When senators met nearly a decade ago to consider the dangers of pharmacies that mix or alter drugs with little federal oversight, health officials briefed them on some alarming ...

Below are some questions to be asked when considering contracting with an off-site compounding pharmacy. These questions were developed through the authors' experience and conversations with their ...

Intravenous (IV) compounding safety has garnered recent attention as a result of high-profile incidents, awareness efforts from the safety community, and increasingly ...

Few prescribing physicians escape concerns during their day-to-day practice of the 'lawyer looking over their shoulder'. The prescribing of compounded drugs involves the triad of patient, physician ...

The infection came out of nowhere, 36 hours after Eloise Soler's heart surgery last summer at the Corpus Christi Medical Center in South Texas. As her fever spiked to 103, other patients developed ...

EMINENCE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Kentucky Board of Pharmacy has issued an order than a Henry County pharmacy stop compounding and dispensing compounded medications after three children had an adverse ...

A growing emphasis on compounding and personalized medicine is driving a complete revolution in the retail pharmacy market. At the forefront of this evolution is the ability to address unique patient ...

News of a recent meningitis outbreak has sent many Americans into panic mode. As of Thursday afternoon, 170 people in 11 states had become sick with the noncontagious fungal meningitis; 14 of those ...