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Opinion: Compounding pharmacies offer a fix for shortages of essential drugs

STAT

At the urging of the Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding, the trade association I lead, the Food and Drug Administration in April 2020 issued temporary guidance allowing traditional compounding pharmacies, within tight regulatory guardrails, to prepare 13 Covid drugs from pure ingredients to meet hospitals’ urgent need.

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Advocates for Safe IV Preparation Practices Share Their Inspiration Podcast

Omnicell

In fact, in a 2020 ISMP Sterile Compounding Pulse Check conducted with 634 pharmacy practitioners, only 25% of respondents report using technologies that include barcode verification, images, and gravimetric verification for 50% of compounded sterile products. Fortunately, this is where THRIV comes to play.

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Contamination Trends & Proposed Solutions

ISPE

March 2020. 5 , 8 Compounding pharmacies were commonly mentioned as sources of microbial cross-contamination, especially in the US. 9 , 15 This has led to compounding pharmacies completing high-volume activities such as mass repackaging, thereby increasing the risk of cross-contamination. Siani, and M.

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10 Facts About Thyroid Disease

The Thyroid Pharmacist

20] This medication is available only as a prescription and can be compounded into lower doses by special professional compounding pharmacies. Published 2020 Apr 10. Published 2020 Jan 14. This means that it turns off the cells that cause autoimmunity! [20] Do You Think (or Know) You Have Hashimoto’s?

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Blood Sugar, Hashimoto’s, Ozempic, Metformin and Berberine

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Compounding pharmacies will sometimes repackage these drugs, or create lower or different concentrations than what’s typically available. Published 2020 Jun 18. Published 2020 Aug 18. doi:10.1155/2020/2141508 [22] Och A, Och M, Nowak R, Podgórska D, Podgórski R. Published 2020 May 12. 2020;13:2093-2108.