Details on the Drug Shortages
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Buckwirth
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Details of drug shortages
Lists all of the current shortages of CRC drugs and the (reported) reasons.
Details of drug shortages
Lists all of the current shortages of CRC drugs and the (reported) reasons.
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And from the New York Times:Buzzard said:Thats great...in my era...
3 of the drugs I am to start tomorrow are in short supply.........pretty much sums up my week........buzz
nytimes.com/2011/09/19/health/policy/19drug.html
(assuming other countries can maintain high quality control standards-tho US trying to damper competition here......see:livemint.com/2011/09/19192604/US-court-rules-against-Sun-Pha.html
of course US court ruled against Indian company that may produce OXI cheaper than US to sell cheaper to US!!!!)
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robbery and...
Once multiple shortages occurred, "FDA protection" was revealed to be just a sorrid protection racket.
Most of our generic medicines come from overseas. We're just left bickering over how many $ XXX,XXX we are willing to be robbed rather than die without "$10 aspirin tablets", or just doing without. I guess oral leucovorin over $0.25 per 25 mg tablet is my breaking point of cynicism (ha,ha, $10 per 15 mg tablet, $22+ per 25 mg tab at W--greens). Leucovorin (folinic acid) tablets of any size could really be "more natural vitamin B9" supplements for 1-10 cents instead of folic acid ...
Any stage IV patient on 5FU that is denied getting any leucovorin at all, is likely being seriously injured. I've seen this myself and with posters elsewhere. Who should the patients hold accountable, and how?0
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