Compounding refers to the pharmaceutical preparation of a licensed pharmacist’s drug to meet an individual patient’s unique needs. The patient could either be a human or an animal. Compounding pharmacists perform this procedure when there isn’t a commercially available drug that meets those needs. The U.S Pharmacopeial Convention described compounding as preparing, assembling, altering, mixing, […]
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How to Make the Pharmaceutical Industry More Sustainable
The pharmaceutical industry has a substantial impact on the environment, especially when the materials used to make them and the chemicals that comprise make their way directly into the environment. The pharmaceutical industry at large as well as average consumer can take steps to make of use of medicine more sustainable through both significant and […]