Compounding News for July 4, 2009
Local drug stores warn seniors
From Stanley News and Press (North Carolina)
While President Barack Obama and the Congress are tackling the enormity of America’s healthcare system, one basic, key element of that system — the dispensing of doctor-prescribed medications — has become a nightmarish situation for many patients ...(read more)
Oprah takes bio-identicals, but should you?
From CTV - Canada
Bio-identicals are being touted by many as the answer for women who want to relieve their menopause symptoms, reverse aging and even prevent heart disease and cancer. But others say the medications are nothing more than snake oil. ...(read more)
Profit drives drug misuse in Asia
From The Vancouver Sun
Experts warn that driven by profits from selling medicine, some doctors from Indonesia to Hong Kong are overprescribing medicines, a practice they say will be disastrous in the longer term. ...(read more)
Compounding pharmacies offer medications to order
From Examiner.com (Houston, TX)
Before World War II, about 60 percent of medications in the United States were compounded by pharmacists. When mass production of pharmaceuticals took hold in the 1950s and 1960s, it quickly overshadowed compounding pharmacy practices. But in recent years, compounding pharmacies have made a comeback ...(read more)

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