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| Around the World of Compounding |
 Welcome to our new, innovative and exciting CompoundingToday.com website! The purpose of this site is to totally support you in quality compounding practice. Our ultimate goal is to have everything available for you at the touch of a key; from calculations/calculators to formulations to physicochemical data to technology to cutting-edge methods to background and supporting information you may need in your pharmacy. We will support you whether you work in a hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy, home healthcare facility, compounding-only pharmacy, veterinary compounding pharmacy, etc., we want you to have easy access to information to make your practice successful. Have a suggestion? Please let us know.
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CompoundingToday.com: Tools for the Problem Solving Pharmacist
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The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding, the worldwide source of knowledge and information for problem-solving pharmacists, now puts powerful electronic tools at the pharmacist's fingertips.
As a member of CompoundingToday.com, there is no end to the information and resources you�ll be provided.
With click of the mouse you�ll get�.
- Standard Operating Procedures - chose SOPs from our large and growing library. Delivered to you in easy to use and customizable Word documents
- Citations and Abstracts - search for compounding related articles from our database of more than 300 publications. We are creating the Medline of pharmacy literature. Search by publication or keyword and immediately access the abstract of the article you are interested in obtaining.
- Discontinued Prescription Medications - the only up-to-date database of drugs formerly commercially available in the United States.
- Interactive Claim Form - enter your data once and then print out third party claim forms for individual patients without having to reenter your data.
- Electronic Flavor Guides for humans and animals.
- Base-Salt-Ester Weight Conversion Tool provides conversion equivalents of the base, salts or esters of ingredients.
- Vehicle pH/Alcohol Content Toolgives pH and alcohol content of commonly used vehicles in compounding.
- Filter Membrane Compatibility Tools - compatibility, limited compatibility, not compatible or no data available information based on chemical or filter type.
- Plus you�ll have access to mainstream pharmacy news and IJPC�s Compounder�s Network Listserv.
- CompoundingToday.com Newsletter - our weekly email newsletter will bring you up to the minute news, regulatory information and new product announcements, and more.
- Many more products and services are in development.
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| Regulatory Update |
The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists provided this regulatory update.
The Senate Appropriations Committee recently issued the FY 05 agriculture appropriations report, which contains language addressed to FDA on both human and animal compounding. The animal compounding section is largely constructive; however, the discussion on human compounding language raises significant concerns. IACP is working, along with other pharmacy organizations and coalitions, to garner support for revised text that would replace the initial human compounding report language in the final appropriations report. For more information, please visit http://www.iacprx.org/SACommittee_usp.html.
IACP is preparing an amicus curiae brief ("... a phrase that literally means "friend of the court" -- someone who is not a party to the litigation, but who believes that the court's decision may affect its interest." William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court) supporting aspects of a multi-count lawsuit filed by 10 pharmacies in the United States District Court � Western District of Texas (Midland Division) against the FDA. For more information, visit http://www.iacprx.org/Litigation.html.
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| In the News |
| The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists provided this news update. Go to CompoundingToday.com for daily news.
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| Options Exist to Combat Flu |
| Like many Americans, Karen Johnson of Royal Palm Beach couldn't get a flu shot this year. But she isn't stewing about it. Instead, for the third week in a row, she tipped her head back last Wednesday and poured a small pile of sugary granules under her tongue from a slim plastic vial labeled "Dolivaxil."Made in France and little known in the United States, Dolivaxil is about to explode from obscurity. Big-name retail stores have scoured the pharmacopeia for anything that has a legitimate claim to being an alternative to flu vaccine.
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| Bitter pill for druggists: mail order |
| Betsy Faulkner has struggled the past three months not to lay off any of her eight employees.
The co-owner of Woodinville Medical Center Pharmacy cut the hours of some full-time employees this summer and is trying to pick up more business making medication for doctors and veterinarians. But her sales have not rebounded, and she is filling 500 fewer prescriptions a month than she was in January.
"Going after new things takes more time and money, which is hard for a small business like mine," said Faulkner, who now fills 5,900 orders a month. "But without those niches, we probably wouldn't survive."
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| New Compounding Equipment |
| EPS Enema Bottles |
EPS is pleased to announce the latest addition to its growing line of liquid packaging containers�its new 4 oz. lubricated enema bottles. Manufactured from an especially pliable, low-density polyethylene, EPS Enema Bottles provide quick and total dispensing of preparations from bottle to patient. Plus, the distinctly lubricated enema bottle tips allow for easy insertion and removal from the patient
For samples or more information, please contact us at
Phone: 800-523-8966
Fax: 800-323-8966
Email: info@medi-dose.com
Website: www.medi-dose.com
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