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Drugs running short in USA and patients are threatened
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by YankeeJim | May 1, 2011 at 05:56 pm
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Drugs running short in USA
Patients are threatened. What is going on here?
Can it be the confusion in health care and pharmaceutical management created by uncertainty in the US health system and policy has caught up with us?
“Breaking News Alert: U.S. drug shortages threaten patients
May 1, 2011 9:41:11 PM
Doctors, hospitals and federal regulators are struggling to cope with unprecedented drug shortages in the United States that are endangering cancer patients, heart attack victims, accident survivors and a host of other ill people.
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/...EXC7/ZH/h”
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at 18:01 on May 1st, 2011
According to the report:
"“It’s a crisis,” said Erin R. Fox, manager of the drug information service at theUniversity of Utah, who monitors drug shortages for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. “Patients are at risk.”
The causes vary from drug to drug but experts cite a confluence of factors: Consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry has left only a few manufacturers for many older, less profitable products, meaning that when raw material runs short, equipment breaks down or government regulators crack down, the snags can quickly spiral into shortages."
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Peter Koo (not verified)at 13:52 on May 2nd, 2011
Is the crack running out?
at 14:17 on May 3rd, 2011
that is informative blog, thanks for that.
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Earplug (not verified)at 06:29 on May 11th, 2011
Drug shortage is really scary news! Doctors and health care managers have to make some future planning to overcome such kind of situations. I also heard from my friend that the cost of drugs will be increased due to oil price going up.