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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 it [...]

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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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