Julian Gill
Medical Reporter at Houston Chronicle
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2 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Julian Gill
Empower Pharmacy, a Houston-based compounding pharmacy, has voluntarily recalled more than 8,000 vials of testosterone injections over quality concerns, according to Food and Drug Administration records posted this week. Testosterone is generally used to treat men whose bodies don't make enough natural testosterone. The specific medication at issue in the recall — testosterone cypionate — lasts longer in the body than other forms of the medication.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Julian Gill
Baylor College of Medicine is ending a 25-year partnership with a nonprofit that provides medical care for Houston’s homeless population, after weeks of tense exchanges between the two sides over the organization’s unpaid debts that left healthcare services for 6,500 clients hanging in the balance.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Julian Gill
Empower Pharmacy, a Houston-based compounding pharmacy, has attracted media attention over the last decade for its rapid expansion in the region, with the company opening two large facilities that would allow it to produce thousands of medications for patients nationwide.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Julian Gill
Empower Pharmacy markets itself as a well-meaning rival to Big Pharma — one that seeks to democratize medicine by making affordable, personalized drugs for patients who need them. As one of an estimated 7,500 compounding pharmacies in the United States, Empower says it supplies millions of patients with alternate versions of sometimes pricey medications, including popular diabetes and weight loss drugs sold under the brand names Mounjaro and Zepbound.
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1 month ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Julian Gill
The roughly two-year shortage of GLP-1s has officially come to an end. That means, after May 22, compounding pharmacies can no longer produce any copies of the popular diabetes and weight loss drugs, sold under brand names like Wegovy and Zepbound. The change was supposed to mean that compounding pharmacies, which make bespoke versions of medications to fill patient needs and drug shortages, would back away from the lucrative GLP-1 market.
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NEW: MD Anderson implements hiring pause after $43M loss, anxiety over Trump tariffs https://t.co/JAfVDR1M4I via @houstonchron
NEW: Eli Lilly is suing the Houston-based Empower Pharmacy over wildly popular diabetes and weight loss drugs, arguing the company is falsely advertising “personalized” products that are actually mass produced. https://t.co/D0cnBFqELK via @houstonchron