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WASHINGTON — While compounded topical pain creams have become an increasingly popular alternative to oral pain medications and opioids, there is a lack of scientific evidence to support their safety ...

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Credit: Getty Images. To investigate the effectiveness of compounded creams in the treatment of chronic pain conditions, study authors performed a double-blind, randomized, parallel study comparing ...

This is the second in our series of reports on the compound cream industry. You can read Part One here and Part Three here. Last year, former NFL quarterback Bret Favre appeared on Sirius XM’s NFL ...

This week, we learned that the opioid addiction crisis has reached another catastrophic level with more deaths being linked to fentanyl than heroin, and the numbers are rising across the country. Now, ...

Medicare pays hundreds of millions of dollars each year for prescription creams, gels and lotions made-to-order by pharmacies — mainly as pain treatments. But a new report finds that officials are ...