Defend your right to treat patients using compounded medications such as glutathione

Link: http://integrativemedicineconsortium.org/ Here’s the issue: The FDA is once again overstepping by protecting the interests of Big Pharma rather than patient care by restricting access to compounded medicines. Physicians and patients will lose access to these safe, effective and cost effective medications unless we act using the legal methods demonstrated to defeat prior FDA overreach.… Continue reading Defend your right to treat patients using compounded medications such as glutathione

New Amendment May Help Save Compounded Drugs

Please help us get Sen. David Vitter’s critical amendment passed! Action Alert! As you know from our continuing coverage, the FDA has been issuing rules to implement the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA). This legislation was passed by Congress in 2013 in response to a meningitis outbreak in 2012 involving a single bad actor—a… Continue reading New Amendment May Help Save Compounded Drugs

The FDA Appears to Be Breaking the Law in Its Continuing Campaign against Compounding

The agency seeks to remove a safe and useful compounded drug from the market without any public input. Action Alerts! Over the last year, ANH-USA has been paying close attention to new rules that are in the process of being drafted by the FDA concerning compounded drugs—especially those rules which, if enacted, would severely limit… Continue reading The FDA Appears to Be Breaking the Law in Its Continuing Campaign against Compounding

Compounded Medications Even More At Risk

A new threat to compounded drugs (including bioidentical estriol for women and compounded time-release thyroid) has emerged. Action Alert! The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has released an overreaching draft proposal that may inadvertently crush many small compounding pharmacies—unless we take action. USP is a nonprofit organization that sets standards for the identity, strength, quality, and purity of medicines… Continue reading Compounded Medications Even More At Risk