Over the past few weeks, the FDA has devoted lots of attention to compounding pharmacies, issuing two new guidance documents pertaining to their fundamental scope, a guidance document regarding ...

A premature infant admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was placed on a ventilator. Along with parenteral nutrition, arterial fluids were started with sodium acetate 80 mEq/L and heparin ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As of the end of October, 28 deaths resulting from the use of poorly prepared compounded medications by a ...

The infection came out of nowhere, 36 hours after Eloise Soler's heart surgery last summer at the Corpus Christi Medical Center in South Texas. As her fever spiked to 103, other patients developed ...

Intravenous (IV) compounding safety has garnered recent attention as a result of high-profile incidents, awareness efforts from the safety community, and increasingly ...

Below are some questions to be asked when considering contracting with an off-site compounding pharmacy. These questions were developed through the authors' experience and conversations with their ...

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 ...

(CN) - The Food and Drug Administration cannot bar a Florida pharmacy from using bulk active ingredients to compound drugs for animals that don't produce food, a federal judge ruled. Ocala-based ...