Compounding

Compounding is an ageless art that combines the latest medical knowledge with state-of-the art technology, allowing specially trained pharmacists and technicians to prepare custom medications to meet their patients specific needs. Compounding dates itself to the beginning of pharmacy and was the standard means of providing prescription medications before mass produced drugs by pharmaceutical manufacturers appeared on the scene.

As healthcare patients and professionals realize that commercially available medications do not meet many of their needs, the demand for compounding has dramatically increased. We are witnesses on a daily basis of patient having a better response to customized dosage forms that are “just what the doctor ordered”.

When deciding on a treatment protocol, prescribers no longer are constrained by the limited dosage forms that are commercially available. As compounding pharmacists we have an armamentarium consisting of every medication that is approved for use and meets governmental regulations. Our compounding professionals will create the best medication for each patient. We can prepare medications free of problem causing excipients such as sugar, lactose, dyes, alcohol, gluten or preservatives. We also can prepare medications that are not commercially available as well as combining multiple medications into a single dosage form which improves administration as well as compliance.

Latest Compounding Posts

  • Why choose a PCAB accredited pharmacy?

    Choosing your compounding pharmacy may be as important as choosing your doctor. Compounding medications is an integral part of the practice of pharmacy – yet many people may not even be aware of it.. Compounded medications are prescriptions that are written by a physician, veterinarian or other legally authorized prescriber and prepared for an individual [...]

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  • Drug Shortage Update: Armour Thyroid

    When a product becomes commercially unavailable, it does not mean the end of the line for that specific product.  The same can be said for drug shortages of widely prescribed treatments such as Armour Thyroid.  Physicians and pharmacists alike are able to refer their patients to Johnson Compounding & Wellness Center for a specially tailored [...]

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  • FDA takes a stand against bio-identical hormones

    In a press conference, the FDA admitted that no adverse event involving compounded bio-identical estriol has ever been reported. Research involving 15,000 women funded by the Department of Defense and conducted at Kaiser-Permanente Oakland found that women who produced the most estriol during their first pregnancy had 58% less breast cancer over the next forty [...]

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  • Update on our Compounding lab

    As you may or may not know, as of April 2008 we changed our name to Johnson Compounding and Wellness Center and only fill compounded prescriptions. Since this time we have received many questions about the change which I will attempt to clarify now.     Compounding goes back to the roots of pharmacy, in fact [...]

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  • Individual Vaccines

    We receive inquiries on a weekly basis as to the availability of individual measles, mumps and rubella vaccines, aka MMR. The measles and the rubella vaccines are available individually with a doctors prescription and can be filled by a pharmacy. The mumps vaccine is only available to the physician. The manufacturer, Merck will not sell [...]

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