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Zepbound, Mounjaro shortages are resolved, FDA confirms

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The FDA’s decision will close a lucrative market opportunity for compounding pharmacies, although the agency will give a limited grace period before taking any enforcement actions.

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Diabetes advocacy group discourages use of compounded GLP-1 drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The ADA recommended doctors avoid prescribing unapproved, off-brand versions of drugs like Wegovy, wading into a dispute that has gripped the FDA and compounding pharmacies over the past few months.

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FDA Says Compounding Pharmacies Can Keep Making Weight-Loss Med Tirzepatide, for Now

Drugs.com

15, 2024 -- Pharmacists may continue making compounded versions of the weight-loss medication tirzepatide while the U.S. TUESDAY, Oct. Food and Drug Administration revisits its Oct. 2 decision to remove the medicine from a national drug shortage.

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Co-founder of Company Behind Deadly 2012 Meningitis Outbreak Gets Up to 15 Years in Prison

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- Barry Cadden, co-founder of a specialty compounding pharmacy behind a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, has been handed a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years in Michigan for involuntary manslaughter.On Tuesday, Cadden.

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A Closer Look At Our On-Site Compounding Pharmacies

Alta Sciences

A Closer Look At Our On-Site Compounding Pharmacies shajjar Thu, 12/14/2023 - 21:30 HTML Altasciences' dedicated pharmacists bring a wealth of expertise in controlled substances and complex compounding, ensuring maximum precision and safety standards. Electronic security access to the pharmacy and video monitoring. -

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TOP 5 WAYS INTEGRATED DRUG DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEY

Alta Sciences

and Canadian CPUs with compounding pharmacies, that are integrated with our bioanalytical labs and manufacturing and analytical campus. Altasciences has U.S. In fact, one of our bioanalytical laboratories is located within a few minutes' drive of our Montréal CPU, contributing to speedy data acquisition.

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Article FDA Thank You In proposed rule, FDA offers up a (surprisingly sparse) list of drugs that present demonstrable compounding difficulties

Agency IQ

FDA addressed the expanding practice of drug compounding in 1992 by issuing a compliance policy guide that clarified that pharmacies which compounded products at certain scales, for certain purposes, or without FDA approval were clearly operating “outside the bounds of traditional pharmacy practice.”

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