Healthcare providers can create many different forms of drugs through compounding. Examples include capsules, solutions, and suspensions taken by mouth and creams and ointments applied to the skin.
Compounding serves a vital role by enabling pharmacies to tailor medications to the specific needs of individual patients when commercially available drugs are insufficient — for example ...
A prohibition on advertising compounded drugs would, for example, prevent a pharmacist from informing a pediatrician about a compounding process that allowed a drug, previously available only as a ...