Drug Shortages
503Bs and Their Role in Responding to Drug Shortages
With drug shortages at an all-time high, hospital and health-system pharmacies are increasingly turning to 503B ...
AUGUST 6, 2024
ASHP Reports Drug Shortages Hit a 2-Decade High
The number of active, ongoing drug shortages has reached 323, the highest tally the American Society of ...
APRIL 22, 2024
Drug Shortages Continue … And Proliferate
Many medications commonly used by anesthesiologists and pain medicine specialists are in serious shortage.
JULY 5, 2022
Calculating the Costs of IV Tocilizumab Shortage
Health systems are still grappling with a sharp decrease in the supply of the RA drug.
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
Drug Shortages Continue During COVID-19
Last spring, almost every drug class used for mechanical ventilation, from sedatives to vasopressors, was in short ...
OCTOBER 29, 2021
IV Tocilizumab Shortage Raises Ethical Issues, Supply Challenges for Health Systems
In a troubling echo of last year's pandemic-induced critical drug shortages, health systems are now grappling with ...
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Amid Supply Challenges, Generics Still a Cost-Saver
The dramatic growth in generic drugs has been a huge economic success story in the United States, generating ...
AUGUST 3, 2021
Getting a Handle on Drug Inventory During COVID-19
The surge in demand for sedatives and other medications brought on by the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic presents ...
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Patients Struggle to Find Prescription Opioids After NY Tax Drives Out Suppliers
A tax, once touted as a way to punish major drugmakers for their role in the opioid epidemic and generate funding ...
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
COVID-19: What Have We Learned? How Do We Move Forward?
On Jan. 19, a patient who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, walked into an urgent care clinic in Washington ...
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Shortages in Drugs for Patients on Ventilators Persist
Shortages in medications used during ventilation are continuing.
AUGUST 3, 2020
Demand for Ventilator Drugs ‘Unprecedented’
There is a danger that there won’t be enough critical sedatives, opioids and paralytic drugs to facilitate ...
APRIL 14, 2020
