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• CALL TO ACTION: Tell FDA to deny drugmakers’ request

  Drugmakers are urging FDA to prohibit compounded GLP-1s. FDA needs to hear from you and your patients NOW! read more →

• APC to FDA: Just say no to Lilly

  This week APC's lawyers sent a formal comment to the FDA about Eli Lilly’s request that tirzepatide be added to the Demonstrably Difficult to Compound list. read more →

• California BOP sends proposed compounding regs to comment period

  The California State Board of Pharmacy decided to move the modified proposed sterile compounding regulations forward to a 30-day comment period. read more →

• Checking in on the post-Chevron fallout

  What’s happened in the world of federal regulation since the end of Chevron? read more →

• Hi, Noom!

  Welcome to our newest Bronze-level Corporate Patron, Noom! read more →

• PFMs can get 2.5% credit card processing

  A new benefit for APC’s Pharmacy/Facility Members: They may be able to cut their credit card processing fees to just 2.5% – 2.8%. read more →

• Phoenix compounders, rise!

  The latest of APC’s new regional meetings — CompoundED UpDATE — is coming to the Phoenix area December 5. read more →

• APC election results: directors and bylaws

  See the results of APC's elections, including four new directors and several changes to our bylaws. read more →

More News

Worth a read #1: “Allowing Compounding Pharmacies to Address Drug Shortages” a policy brief by James Broughel, senior research fellow at George Mason’s Mercatus Center, was published in the March/April print edition of the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding. Broughel’s analysis outlines a necessary pathway for 503A pharmacies to be able to compound shortage drugs — exactly the kind of path envisioned in HR3662, the APC-supported urgent-use bill currently in Congress.

Worth a read #2: Want to stay up to date on the latest in alternative medicine? Check out — and subscribe to — The Townsend Letter. Its latest issue is all about the immune system, including compounded supplements, hormone therapies, nutraceuticals, and more. (And we’re grateful for their ongoing coverage of our Campaign to Save Compounded Hormones, by the way!)