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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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STAT+: Roivant autoimmune drug succeeds in eye condition; company to buy back $1.5 billion in stock

STAT

The autoimmune drug, brepocitinib, is being steered by a company called Priovant Therapeutics, which was formed as part of a deal between Roivant and Pfizer in 2021.     It is one of the most-watched compounds in Roivant’s pipeline for multiple autoimmune indications. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Opinion: Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

STAT

These workforce challenges are compounded by the fact that America — both physicians  and our patient population — is also aging, and the number of available doctors is shrinking. Nearly 334,000  health care professionals left the workforce in 2021.

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AI Driven Repositioning and Repurposing Summit 2021

pharmaphorum

Given these circumstances, drug repositioning and repurposing has appeared as an alternative tool to accelerate drug development processes by seeking new indications for approved/shelved drugs rather than discovering de novo drug compounds. The post AI Driven Repositioning and Repurposing Summit 2021 appeared first on.

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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

In a review on fungal-contaminated compounded pharmaceuticals and medical devices, researchers have described how the contamination of these products can be due to breaches in sterile compounding procedures. One case of drug contamination from 2021 was highlighted in the paper. Ahmed et al.

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Age-related macular degeneration market expected to reach $27.5bn across 7MM by 2031

Pharmaceutical Technology

The age-related macular degeneration (AMD) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14.1%

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Global Generic Drug Market Forecast to Hit $531.8 Billion by 2028

Pharmacy Times

Study results show a compound annual growth rate of 5.2% billion in revenue in 2021.