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The Drug Shortage Wars | The Health Care Blog
“I should have gotten cancer last month,” she told me.
That was the first thought from my patient
after she’d heard the news: her ovarian cancer would remain untreated
for weeks, due to a critical shortage of the chemotherapy agent
doxorubicin. Like her, several thousand patients have been affected by
critical shortages of chemotherapy agents like doxorubicin (Doxil) and
methotrexate—common medicines that are essential backbones of cancer
chemotherapy. But hundreds of other people have also been affected by
critical shortages of pills around the country—limiting the supply of
critical ICU medications like intravenous versed, or tuberculosis drugs
like isoniazid.
Why are these shortages happening, and what can be done about them?....
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