Prescription Drug Shortages Addressed Through Custom Compounding
The FDA reports the number of drug shortages has nearly tripled over the last six years. 2010 was a record year for the number of prescription drug shortages, and so far in 2011 the FDA has continued to notice an increasing number of drug shortages, particularly sterile injection drugs.
As a result of these hundreds of drug shortages to date, medical physicians are faced with the need to identify suitable alternative medications. Healthcare professionals are turning to compounding pharmacies to provide drugs that have gone off the market. Compounding Pharmacists can respond to these drug shortages with custom compounded alternatives in different forms including injections, tablets, capsules, and topical lotions.
Prescription drug shortages are caused by a variety of distributing factors ranging from manufacturing delays to lack of raw materials. Manufacturing problems have affected product quality and sometimes cause production to come to a standstill. Manufacturing delays vary from lower risks like misprinted labeling to greater issues like sterility problems. Some prescription drug shortages are simply caused by the company's decision to stop making some older, less profitable drugs. Usually, older prescription drugs are discontinued and replaced with newer, more profitable drugs.
Although the FDA encourages companies to notify the agency about problems which could potentially lead to drug shortages, there is no legal requirement. The FDA maintains an up-to-date list of prescription drug shortages online and encourages health care professionals to notify the agency of any known drug shortages.
The critical shortages of lifesaving drugs are threatening hospital care in America today, delaying patient treatment and limiting the medicines doctors can prescribe and the anesthetics they can use to perform surgery. MD Custom RX can respond to the increasing prescription drug shortages with custom compounded alternatives. Contact MD Custom Rx to find out more today.
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What Can You Expect at MDCustomRx?
At MDCustomRx, you are treated as an individual and not a diagnosis. Our compounding pharmacy offers the broadest range of custom prescription options in Wisconsin, from non-standard dosages and combinations of drugs, to custom drug delivery methods like topical creams and lollipops. We provide alternative treatments which are frequently effective in relieving symptoms of multiple sclerosis, autism, cancer, thyroid problems, and other conditions.
Bio-Identical Hormone Treatment for Wisconsin Women
With the current nationwide shortage of the major thyroid hormone supplements compounding pharmacies are the only source of Dessicated Natural Thyroid (Thyroid USP-porcine) in the proper ratio of T4:T3 (4.22:1). MDCustomRx is serving Wisconsin residents compounding solutions with custom blends of T4 and T3 hormones to meet individual patient needs. To learn more about Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy and if Desiccated Natural Thyroid can help you or to learn about the prescription compounding options available.
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Prenatal Care to Prevent Preterm Delivery in Wisconsin
Preterm delivery effects one in eight babies increasing the risk of lifelong health problems for these babies. In February 2011 the FDA approved the first drug for preventing premature birth - Makena. Unfortunately KV Pharmaceuticals has set the cost of the approved pharmaceutical product Makena at over $500 per dose! For decades, Hydroxyprogesterone, the active ingredient in Makena, has been readily available through compounding pharmacies, like MD Custom Rx in Brookfield, for a mere $10-$15 per dose. MD Custom RX will continue to work with patients and doctors to provide compounded Hydroxyprogesterone keeping the drug for reducing the risk of preterm delivery affordable through pharmaceutical compounding.
Ask your doctor about compounded 17P Hydroxyprogesterone from MDCustomRx Brookfield Wisconsin
Pediatric Compounding for the Health of Wisconsin's Growing Children
Medications are often not approved for use in infants and children and many do not have options that make administering them easy or effective. This is where custom compounding from MD Custom Rx can step in to provide suitable pediatric dosage and forms to effectively help your child back to health. From lollipops to good tasting liquid formulations for many medications, the Brookfield Wisconsin compounding pharmacy can deliver pediatric medications for your child.
Call MD Custom Rx in Brookfield at 262.373.1050 today to find out about pediatric compounding solutions!
Palliative Care for End of Life Support that Minimizes Pain and Symptoms
Custom compounded medications offer therapeutic alternatives and advantages for patients of every age. Compounding pharmacists offer flavoring of medications to ease discomfort, give drug administration options like transdermal, sublingual, buccal, rectal, individualized formulations to eliminate problem ingredients and medication management to improve the patients daily life. Involve the compounding pharmacists of MD Custom Rx when faced with relieving pain, for symptom control and wound care throughout all phases of life.
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From bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) to low dose naltrexone (LDN), MDCustomRx is Wisconsin’s best source for compounded prescriptions. No other Wisconsin compounding pharmacy offers our level of personalized attention, following up with each customer, and working closely with patients and practitioners/prescribers to find the best treatment method for each individual. Through our hormone balancing consultation program, our compounding pharmacists will evaluate your hormone levels, and work with your doctor to arrive at a bioidentical hormone replacement program to ease the effects of menopause, andropause, thyroid conditions, adrenal fatigue and more.
Our compounding pharmacists strive to obtain the highest standard of continuing education in order to be the most up to date in their knowledge of drug manipulation and compounding techniques. Our staff of caring pharmacists and technicians are devoted to the patient-physician-pharmacist triad, which consists of the philosophy that by working together we can best meet the individual needs of the patient.
MDCustomRx offers Wisconsin's only state-of-the-art compounding laboratory complete with USP <797> compliant sterile clean room, concomitant ante and prep room facilities. We ensure in-house environmental testing and scheduled sterility and potency testing on all of our sterile compounded products and scheduled potency testing on all compounded preparations. Our Brookfield WI (in Waukesha county) has been expanded to serve all physicians and patients in Milwaukee, Waukesha and beyond with state-of-the art equipment and expanded patient services. We serve patients and doctors from all over the state of Wisconsin, from Racine and Kenosha to Green Bay and Appleton, and West past Madison, our compounding pharmacy is where Wisconsin doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pediatricians and dermatologists obtain customized prescriptions for their patients.
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