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on November 04, 2012 at 9:00 AM, updated November 04, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Those items and some other medicines produced at the pharmacy can take hours to make from scratch.
“It’s kind of like an art form,” says Charlene Vernak, the pharmacist in charge, who co-owns the store near the hamlet of Borodino with her husband, Christopher Vernak, who runs the non-pharmacy part of the store.
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on November 04, 2012 at 9:00 AM, updated November 04, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Syracuse, N.Y. -- In the pharmacy
at the back of Vernak Farms Country Store
in Skaneateles, a technician wearing a hairnet, gloves, mask and lab coat
uses a machine to blend a creamy ointment that looks like icing for a cake.
Patients will rub the mixture into their skin to relieve pain.
Another technician nearby uses a glass mortar and pestle to mix white powder
and other ingredients to make “rectal rockets,” special suppositories for
hemorrhoid sufferers.Those items and some other medicines produced at the pharmacy can take hours to make from scratch.
“It’s kind of like an art form,” says Charlene Vernak, the pharmacist in charge, who co-owns the store near the hamlet of Borodino with her husband, Christopher Vernak, who runs the non-pharmacy part of the store.
Charlene Vernak operates a
compounding pharmacy, a type of specialty drugstore relatively unknown until a
deadly national outbreak of
meningitis was recently linked to drugs made by a
compounding pharmacy in
Massachusetts. Compounding pharmacies make customized medicine for patients with
unique health needs that cannot be treated with the mass-produced drugs that
regular pharmacies offer.
She and other compounding pharmacists say their small pharmacies have nothing
in common with the operation in Massachusetts that was preparing drugs for
national distribution and functioning more like a big manufacturer than a
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