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5 Proven Strategies for Growing Your Compounding Pharmacy

DiversifyRx

This is where compounding pharmacies shine. Here are my top 5 tried-and-true strategies to grow your compounding pharmacy. So pick your favorites and start growing your compounds! Compounding is fascinating for your patients. So, what are compounding bookmarks, exactly? Buy 2 units, get 1 unit free.

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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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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

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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Legal Battles Intensify: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Lawsuits Targeting Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

Analyzing the patent and trademark challenges faced by 503A compounding pharmacies.

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Proper Use of Automation in Hazardous Drug Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

Although robotics can be instrumental in assuring sterility and reducing the overall number of potential hazardous drug exposure events, certain tasks require vigilant oversight.

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STAT+: FDA and large compound pharmacies settle a long-running dispute over a key list for ingredients

STAT

Food and Drug Administration and a trade group that represents large compound pharmacies have resolved a long-running dispute over the use of bulk ingredients, clearing the way for some compounded medicines to become available more quickly. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Myonex Acquires Saveway Compounding Pharmacy

PharmExec

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