AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Pharmacy will create a task force to look at how compounding pharmacies operate. Compounding pharmacies are pharmacies that mix and tailor their own drugs for ...

In response to national tragedies surrounding compounded sterile medications and acute awareness of the danger of handling hazardous drugs (e.g. chemo); new regulatory standards are being set forth ...

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 ...

Increasing competition and decreasing reimbursement for services provided are driving healthcare organizations to seek innovative value-based, patient-safety focused solutions. Hospitals and ...

In early 2024, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) reported a record 323 active drug shortages, many affecting sterile injectable medications. This situation was exacerbated later ...

The division of pharmacy at this institution provides sterile compounding training to employees, including a 20-hour didactic training course to all pharmacists and a 40- hour didactic course to ...

When you have to go on a medication, your doctor will probably prescribe a premade one that's FDA-approved. But sometimes, they may want you to go on a compounded medicine that's specifically made for ...

Central Pharmacy IV Compounding Service creates a safer, more accurate and cost-effective IV pharmacy Nearly one out of ten IVs are not prepared within guidelines1 using manual processes and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — “I can't even enter the pharmacy. It's driving me nuts,” said Daniel Dougharty, business development at NuCara Pharmacy. NuCara Pharmacy is a pharmacy that compounds sterile and ...

Purpose: Using a multiple-step testing medium-risk-level compounding test procedure, the evaluation of two work-practice changes to determine if the changes could effectively reduce the potential for ...