BuzzRx

OCTOBER 14, 2022

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. There are 56,000 community pharmacies in the US. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

APRIL 17, 2024

A study published in 2022 found “significant price variation in community pharmacies,” and a Consumer Reports survey showed prices can vary by hundreds of dollars between pharmacies—even ones in the same town. Look into compounded options (but be careful). per 30-day supply (a pack of four pens).

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The Checkup by Singlecare

AUGUST 8, 2024

A medication shortage occurs when the demand for a drug is greater than the supply, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA tracks drug shortages at the national level by obtaining information from drug manufacturers about their ability to produce medications. Many factors cause medication shortages.

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The Thyroid Pharmacist

JULY 20, 2023

Just this year, the FDA approved Jesduvroq tablets (daprodustat) as the first oral treatment for anemia caused by chronic kidney disease, for adults who have been receiving dialysis for at least four months. [58] There are various iron salts, or compounds, and each of them have different levels of elemental iron in them. [63]

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