The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to ask one of its newest advisory committees to decide if some compounding pharmacies should be allowed to make four drugs, including the widely ...

A compounded medication is a drug a healthcare provider prepares to meet your specific needs. It's made by combining, mixing, or altering ingredients of a drug. Compounded medications are important ...

Unlike more traditional pharmaceutical manufacturers—think Pfizer, for example—compounding pharmacies make custom versions of already-approved pharmaceuticals with the stated purpose of meeting unique ...

As more people turn to blockbuster drugs like Wegovy to lose weight, some are choosing to skip the name-brand drugs and go online for less expensive alternatives made by specialized pharmacies. NPR ...

Gottlieb was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019. When Makena, a drug designed to prevent preterm births, hit the market in 2011 at $1,500 per dose, it drew rife ...

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, with the South African Pharmacy Council, recently announced what was described as a crackdown on a compounding pharmacy. They allege "critical ...

Unlike conventional pharmacies, which mostly dispense premade drugs in standard doses, compounding pharmacies make, or "compound," medications on the premises, according to federal guidelines. For ...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, a class of medications known as GLP-1s, have grown in popularity, initially for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and more recently for obesity and other labeled and ...

Compounding pharmacies will have to stop producing copycats of tirzepatide, the active ingredient in the blockbuster weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound, in a matter of days. That’s because a ...