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Re:Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy des... by aomix on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:24PM (#43384293)
I was working in a college job for a pharmaceutical distributor when the New England Compounding Center outbreak happened. I think that dropped a nuke on the whole industry. We stopped dealing with compounding pharmacies after that because that whole thing was more like a matter of when not if.
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Re:Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy des... by s1artibartfast on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:31PM (#43384638)
I'm most familiar with them for off label ocular injections. Avastin is a common medication for colorectal cancer, but has an extremely similar biologic to Lucentis, used of ocular injections. Compounding pharmacies will breakdown Avastin because it is cheaper than Lucentis, and pre-fill disposable syringes.
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