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503b CompoundingCustom-drug makers to come under voluntary oversight
Complex, custom-made medications produced in factorylike pharmacies, including several in Arizona, are distributed to hospitals across the country with almost no state or federal oversight — a loophole dramatized by a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroids from one of those facilities in New England. That outbreak could just as easily have happened […]
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503b CompoundingToday’s Shortages
ASHP/FDA Alprostadil Products Ammonium Molybate Inj. Aspirin Tablets Ceftriaxone Sodium Inj. Chloramphenicol Sodium Succinate Inj. Chloroprocaine Inj. Ciprofloxacin Inj. Cyanocobalamin Inj. Danorubicin Hydrochoride Inj. Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate Famotidine Inj. Fluorouracil Inj. Haloperidol Lactate Inj. Potassium Chloride Inj. Synthetic Conjugated Estrogen Tamoxifen Tablets Tdap Vinblastine Inj, Witamin E Aqueous Oral Solution
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503b CompoundingOfficial: Texas Can Keep Lethal Drug Source Secret
DALLAS — Texas’ prison system doesn’t have to reveal where it gets its execution drugs, the state attorney general said Thursday, marking a reversal by the state’s top prosecutor on an issue being challenged in several death penalty states. Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor in the nation’s busiest death penalty state, […]
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