With the rising demand for weight-loss medications, compounding pharmacies have been making headlines lately. On October 30, the FDA announced that all doses of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy ...

May 6—Compounding pharmacies can offer a life-saving medicine to patients who may not be able to take standard medication, but the industry is in the midst of challenges because of rules and ...

When endocrinologist Dan Bessesen, MD, looked online and saw how easy it would be for him to purchase a weight loss drug from ...

Jennie Smith, a seamstress at a ballet school in Kent, Ohio, had been trying to lose weight and keep it off for years. After losing 60 pounds through dieting only to gain 30 of it back, she wanted to ...

It is easy to differentiate between your local community pharmacy and a large pharmaceutical manufacturer. The pharmacy is viewed as dispensing medications to particular patients with prescriptions ...

Customizing medications can be lifesaving and also dangerous. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of Compounding ...

While glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists for diabetes and weight loss remain in short supply, some clinicians have turned to compounding pharmacies to fill prescriptions. Yet news reports and ...

Empower Pharmacy, a Houston-based compounding pharmacy, has attracted media attention over the last decade for its rapid expansion in the region, with the company opening two large facilities that ...

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