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Preserving Patient Access to Compounded Medications Act of 2017

Pharmacy Times

The act would have permitted health care facilities to stock up on compounded medications without forcing the supplying 503A pharmacies to register as outsourcing facilities.

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Chemotherapy and Compounding – What You NEED to Know

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Epicur Pharma’s Advisory Council member Ann Donoghue, DVM, MS shares her personal perspective on the important relationship between veterinary oncology and compounded medications used in chemotherapy treatments. But compounding is not easy, it requires skill, training, and consistency.

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Extemporaneous Compounding

RX Note

Introduction In 2018, the Ministry of Health Malaysia published the Good Compounding Practice as a guidance for compounding practices. NOTE: When compounding a preparation using the contents of an ampoule , care should be taken to withdraw the solution using a filter needle to avoid incorporating glass particles into the compound.

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Key vaccine adjuvant biosynthesised

European Pharmaceutical Review

highlighted in the paper a key milestone achieved by the vaccine industry in 2017: “the first saponin adjuvant AS01 was approved for use in a human vaccine, the highly effective shingles vaccine Shingrix (produced by GSK).” “Our Martin et al. Our study opens unprecedented opportunities for bioengineering vaccine adjuvants.

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Recommended Medical Reference

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Adverse Drug Reaction Drug Induced Diseases, 2018 Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs, 2015 Antibiotics The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, 2022 Breastfeeding Briggs' Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, 2021 Hale's Medications and Mothers' Milk, 2021 Clinical Practice Applied Therapeutics, 2018 Conn’s Current Therapy, 2022 Current Medical Diagnosis (..)

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GSK partners LifeMine on fungi-derived medicines

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GlaxoSmithKline has thrown its financial and drug development weight behind LifeMine Therapeutics, a US startup that aims to find new therapeutics from fungi – widely regarded as an underexplored resource of biologically-active compounds. Greg Verdine – LifeMine.

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Rapid microbiology testing market growth expected 2022 to 2027

European Pharmaceutical Review

A report has predicted the rapid microbiology testing market size is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.31 The research includes historic market data from 2017 to 2021, using 2022 as the base year. million in 2017 and continued to grow until 2021. percent between 2022 and 2027.