AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Pharmacy will create a task force to look at how compounding pharmacies operate. Compounding pharmacies are pharmacies that mix and tailor their own drugs for ...

In response to national tragedies surrounding compounded sterile medications and acute awareness of the danger of handling hazardous drugs (e.g. chemo); new regulatory standards are being set forth ...

When you have to go on a medication, your doctor will probably prescribe a premade one that's FDA-approved. But sometimes, they may want you to go on a compounded medicine that's specifically made for ...

In early 2024, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) reported a record 323 active drug shortages, many affecting sterile injectable medications. This situation was exacerbated later ...

IV hydration clinics engage in sterile compounding activities (combining or mixing ingredients to create a custom drug/medicine for an individual patient), such as creating IV vitamin therapies, etc.

Compounding pharmacies can offer a life-saving medicine to patients who may not be able to take standard medication, but the industry is in the midst of challenges because of rules and regulations ...

AUSTIN, Texas — “I can't even enter the pharmacy. It's driving me nuts,” said Daniel Dougharty, business development at NuCara Pharmacy. NuCara Pharmacy is a pharmacy that compounds sterile and ...

Five years ago, methylprednisolone acetate and other drugs compounded by the New England Compounding Center (NECC; Framingham, Mass.) and administered to patients throughout the United States caused a ...

There is no doubt that these occurrences of microbial contamination are a failure of one or more elements of contamination control. Perhaps it was an inadvertent ...

Central Pharmacy IV Compounding Service creates a safer, more accurate and cost-effective IV pharmacy Nearly one out of ten IVs are not prepared within guidelines1 using manual processes and ...