In July, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) performed the first hand transplant on a child. The 10-hour surgery, performed on an eight-year-old boy who had lost his hands and feet following a serious infection at the age of two, included 40 different surgeons, doctors...
Five years after pharmaceutical experts began reviewing changes to sterile preparation requirements for pharmaceutical compounding, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has released proposed regulatory updates aimed at preventing patient harm.
