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04/29/2025

(1906) When Less Is More In Healthcare (w/Drs. Rita Redberg & Vinay Prasad) - YouTube

04/08/2025

This morning, I received the following email from a popular local compounding pharmacy -- one that I've prescribed to with variable success over the past few years to provide many of you with unique medication solutions, particularly GLP-1 agonists (semaglutide, branded Ozempic and Wegovy, and tirzepatide, branded Mounjaro and Zepbound). In a nutshell, compounding pharmacies are being sued nationally because they are greedy, and disregard the law…...

02/21/2025

If you are taking compounded generic tirzepatide (branded as Mounjaro and Zepbound) or compounded generic semaglutide (branded as Ozempic and Wegovy), you will not be able to get these prescriptions at your compounding pharmacy after 19 March 2025 and 22 May 2025 respectively. These medications will become only available in their brand formulations at standard pharmacies. More information can be found with the FDA…...

10/24/2024

If you take this medication, check your lot number! Lot #: 220128, Exp. Date 12/2024 has been recalled by Breckenridge Pharmaceuticals, Inc. over concerns of higher than expected levels of a nitrosamine byproduct, one similarly noted in some blood pressure medication recalls in the past few years (losartan, valsartan, etc.). I don't think that this is likely to have lead to significant injury, but, given the recall, would make sure that you get it swapped out for a fresher batch, without this issue. If you have any questions, email us at: info@vectorhealthtx.com!

10/24/2024

We value how we look on the outside, a very human sentiment! So much so that I am asked frequently when our clinic will offer BOTOX©, fillers, microdermabrasion, and laser therapy, among other things. Therapies are more refined than ever so that intervention appears almost "undetectable," as reported by Charles Trepany in USA TODAY. This is not without consequence, not the least of which is to your purse or wallet!...

10/23/2024

I support a biopsychosocial model of care, one that focuses on the “big picture!” I want my patients healthy, without medication or onerous therapies if possible. In our quick paced society, we want a “quick fix” when we really need to focus on basic lifestyle changes to get healthier. There’s a whole culture of alternative medicine practices, including a number of holistic approaches like…...

10/03/2024

Today, Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals informed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that they had produced enough Mounjaro and Zepbound, branded forms of their weekly injectable tirzepatide, to effectively remove that medication from the FDA Short Supply list. Medications on the short supply list may be compounded by special pharmacies that do not have patent rights otherwise (locally represented by…...

09/26/2024

Patients sometimes ask me to “test everything!” Medicine offers more tests for more conditions than ever, and this thirst for thoroughness is understandable! Requests come on the heel of acute devastating illness in family/friends, in anticipation of an insurability evaluation, in follow-up from exposure to high-risk circumstances (HIV, sexually transmitted infections, occupational or environmental factors, etc.), and many other scenarios....

09/20/2024

Make no mistake, our healthcare system is driven by profit, in addition to the desire to keep its constituency healthful! Wanting to be profitable is not wrong. Doing so at the unnecessary expense of the ill and infirm, and, in violation of the laws of our country, is! Read more in the FTC's recent announcement!

09/10/2024

At Vector Health, we never jump to conclusions!

07/09/2024

We remain closed on Tuesday, 9 January 2024, because of the present power outage related to Beryl.

03/20/2024