Unlike conventional pharmacies, which mostly dispense premade drugs in standard doses, compounding pharmacies make, or "compound," medications on the premises, according to federal guidelines. For ...

Still life of Ozempic and Wegovy. Both are injectable prescription weight loss medicines. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) As demand surges for semaglutide ...

Empower Pharmacy markets itself as a well-meaning rival to Big Pharma — one that seeks to democratize medicine by making affordable, personalized drugs for patients who need them. As one of an ...

Demand for popular weight loss drugs such as semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound) has long outpaced supply, forcing many patients with obesity to visit compounding pharmacies to get ...

Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 pounds over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself "at my ideal body weight," with his cholesterol below 200 for the first time in 20 years ...

Pharmaceutical compounding company Fagron Sterile Services (FSS) is preparing to build radio frequency identification technology into some of its single-use drugs, beginning in February 2022, for use ...

Flush with funding and surging demand, compounding pharmacies are attracting capital from private equity firms, venture capital firms, and hospitals, reshaping the pharmaceutical power dynamic from ...

SCA Pharma set out to expand capacity for key drugs earlier this summer. Now, the compounding pharmacy is pulling one of its critical meds—common blood thinner heparin—from hospitals nationwide over ...