Protecting compounding pharmacies

[Headdoc]

recently the FDA support Wyeth's Pharmaciy's position on bio-identical hormones andthe use of specific estrogen isomers beneficial to women's health. It seems Wyeth's horse urine left some of the isomers out. This is specifically Premarin (i.e. pregnant mares' urine) and Progestin. My wife's health and the health of many of the women married to guys on this board depend upon the availability of compounding pharmacists. If you feel strongly about this issue, take a minute and use the following tool to get a letter out to you congressman, senator, or the FDA.

https://secure2.convio.net/iacprx/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=164&JServSessionIdr004=s2klm1tib3.app7a

[may19th2001]

Compounding drugs should not be controlled, they tried to completley discontinue compounded drugs, however the US Supreme court overuled it if I am correct, it has been taken several times, it has been ruled that if the Physician Prescribes a compunded drug it should not be regulated by the FDA, as it is etc etc

So then Testim and androgel take over, I could not afford to keep up with the price of them gels as my insurance does not cover such.

This is something that I hope does not pass, especially if I ever needed a compunded Drug.

This is something worth fighting for, if it is not one thing it is another.

[Headdoc]

good points May. Something interesting is going on with the two compounding in my area of town. They are expanding their services to do more routine pharmacy and gearing up to accept insurance. One of the two that I know fairly well assures me that this is not an attempt to ultimately eliminate their compounding work. This may just be survival.

[jamesprx]

Compounding sometimes involves nothing more than crushing a pill into a powder with a mortar and pestle and then mixing it into a liquid, says Wayne Mitchell, an FDA regulatory counsel and member of the agency's internal pharmacy compounding steering committee. On the other hand, some types of compounding involve sophisticated scientific operations. Preparing sterile drug products, for example, can require complex steps to ensure a germ-free work environment.

The pharmacy compounding law, which is part of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, defines the limits of legitimate compounding. By limiting the scope of the practice, the law aims to protect patients from the unnecessary use of compounded drugs, which carry intrinsic risks. Patients are often better served by taking commercially manufactured drugs that have been scientifically tested, approved by FDA, and manufactured under controlled conditions.

Compounded drugs can be "a great alternative when nothing is commercially available," says Randy Juhl, Ph.D., dean of the University of Pittsburgh's pharmacy school and chair of FDA's pharmacy compounding advisory committee, a group that includes non-government doctors, pharmacists, and consumer advocates. "But," Juhl says, "as a rule of thumb, if there is a commercially available drug, that's always better because of the quality controls that we as pharmacists can't provide for something we make up as a single-patient batch."

[may19th2001]

Lets continue to protect compounding Pharmacies.


recently the FDA support Wyeth's Pharmaciy's position on bio-identical hormones andthe use of specific estrogen isomers beneficial to women's health. It seems Wyeth's horse urine left some of the isomers out. This is specifically Premarin (i.e. pregnant mares' urine) and Progestin. My wife's health and the health of many of the women married to guys on this board depend upon the availability of compounding pharmacists. If you feel strongly about this issue, take a minute and use the following tool to get a letter out to you congressman, senator, or the FDA.

https://secure2.convio.net/iacprx/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=164&JServSessionIdr004=s2klm1tib3.app7a

[butler07]

I am a scum-sucking spammer.

[may19th2001]

We can only hope that compounding is not overregulated or they put an end to it.