FIRST® – Duke’s Mouthwash and FIRST® – Mary’s Mouthwash Unit-of-Use compounding kit makes pharmacy compounding easier
Woburn, Mass., January 5, 2011 – CutisPharma, Inc. announced the introduction of FIRST® – Duke’s Mouthwash and FIRST® – Mary’s Mouthwash compounding kits. These products complete the FIRST® Magic Mouthwash line for CutisPharma. The product line already includes FIRST® – Mouthwash BLM, and FIRST® – BXN Mouthwash. The active ingredients in FIRST® – Duke’s Mouthwash are comparable to those found in the most routinely prepared formulation of Magic Mouthwash containing Benadryl®, hydrocortisone, and nystatin. The active ingredients in FIRST® – Mary’s Mouthwash are comparable to those found in the most routinely prepared formulation of Magic Mouthwash containing Benadryl®, hydrocortisone, nystatin, and tetracycline. The kits are made for one patient and include pre-weighed powders, and a pre-measured suspension. With FIRST® – Mouthwash Kits, the pharmacist needs only to add the powders to the liquid suspension, shake, and then dispense to the patient.
“By launching FIRST® – Duke’s and Mary’s, physicians now have four of the more commonly prescribed magic mouthwash prescriptions available in a kit,” said Dr. Indu Muni, founder, chairman, and CEO of CutisPharma, Inc. “The Company now offers an expanded line of Magic Mouthwash formulations for patients, physicians, and pharmacists.”
FIRST® products save dispensing time, and can be compounded by the pharmacist while the patient waits, increasing customer satisfaction. Using FIRST® Mouthwash kits, the pharmacist can compound a prescription faster than those prepared in the conventional way. A single NDC number assigned for the entire Kit facilitates the third party reimbursement process, and reduces audit- related adjustments.
CutisPharma now has twelve proprietary prescription compounding kits on the market: five progesterone suppository compounding kits, two testosterone kits, one hydrocortisone kit, and four Magic Mouthwash kits. Several more compounding kits are in the planning stages. FIRST® Unit-of-Use Prescription Compounding Kits facilitates compliance with United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Chapter <795>.
The FDA estimates that each year in the United States approximately 30 million retail and hospital outpatient prescriptions are prepared through “compounding,” a means by which a pharmacist prepares a customized medication according to a doctor’s prescription to meet an individual patient’s medical need. About 1% of all prescriptions are compounded; and the U.S. market alone for compounding, at the consumer level, represents an estimated $1 billion annually.
About CutisPharma
CutisPharma, Inc. based in Woburn, MA, is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on the development and commercialization of value-added proprietary drug products and technologies in the prescription compounding sector of the pharmaceutical industry. Product line and development efforts initially are focused on providing optimized, more efficient alternatives for the preparation of the nearly 10 million currently compounded prescriptions, by offering FIRST® Unit-of-Use Prescription Compounding Kits. Use of these branded compounding kits will be beneficial to all triad participants, namely physicians, pharmacists, and patients. Three U.S. patents have been issued to the Company with several additional patents pending.
Contact:
James Nagle
V.P. Business Development
CutisPharma, Inc.
781-935-8141 x120
