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U.S. drug shortages threaten national health security

The third pharmacy turned him away. My patient had already driven across Northern Michigan in search of his life-saving cancer medication. The first pharmacy was out of stock. The second was out too. At the third, he was told they…

The third pharmacy turned him away. My patient had already driven across Northern Michigan in search of his life-saving cancer medication. The first pharmacy was out of stock. The second was out too. At the third, he was told they hadn’t received a shipment in weeks.

On the other end of this crisis are the physicians. We spend our late evening hours calling store after store, a desperate game of pharmacy …

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U.S. drug shortages threaten national health security