FDA Starts Regulating Compounding Pharmacies

Published December 4, 2013

FDA starts regulating compounding pharmacies
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday began the process of regulating compounding pharmacies, which create new drug combinations or alter drugs to suit individual patient needs. Under the Drug Quality and Security Act, signed …
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Excerpts of editorials from Illinois newspapers
The problem was pointed out in a bit of news last week — the state's backlog of unpaid bills is growing again and might reach $ 9 billion by the end of December. … The recession undoubtedly made things worse and the state's slow recovery hasn't …
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Kentucky's response to drug epidemic is yielding some good news
For instance, one survey showed that drug use was down among Kentucky teens, and a separate federal survey released in early 2013 indicated that Kentucky no longer led the nation in one key measure of prescription-drug abuse in 2010-11, as it did just …
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Pharma goes to court to defend high prices, deceptive marketing
A spokesman for PharmacyChecker.com claims they looked strictly at medications made in the U.S., "because we found it so compelling that the same drugs made here are about 76% less expensive abroad." According to a Commonwealth Fund study …
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