The FDA explains on its website that when a drug is in shortage, compounding pharmacies may be able to prepare a compounded version if they meet certain Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requirements.
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Gwen Iyer, Pharmacist-in-Charge at Empower Pharmacy, remembers a time before there was a rush on the group of drugs like Semaglutide, known as GLP-1′s.Liraglutide, when it came out when I was in school...it was only for diabetes. And then they started realizing, you know, patients were losing weight...Then fast forward to, you know, 2020 and we are really seeing this whole, you know, Ozempic take off. And, you know, Ozempic at the time was only indicated for type two diabetes,” she said.
The discovery that medications like Ozempic can aid weight loss fueled demand which strained supply. Providing patients with access to a drug that is in shortage is something Empower Pharmacy has been able to do in its production of GLP-1′s.
Access to quality medications is something that drives Noorian, who, after a serious accident while working in an oil field, learned he was lacking testosterone and would need to take supplements for the rest of his life. “We don’t have to deal with the complicated supply chain that the traditional pharmaceutical system has to deal with, with compounding pharmacies we are the entire supply chain.
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