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Hospitals Fight Drug Scarcity, Fear Patients Harmed

Anna Yukhananov | Open Source Portal.org | June 1, 2012

At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track their stock of drugs in short supply – a task that takes several hours each day...A few hundred medicines make the list of drugs in short supply: anesthetics, drugs for nausea and nutrition, infection treatments and diarrhea pills. A separate list has scarce cancer drugs for leukemia or breast cancer.
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Is Big Pharma Cooking Up the Current Drug Shortage?

Rom Shinkman | Fierce Health Finance | October 4, 2011

Many hospital finance executives have had that sudden and unpleasant expense pop up on their monthly expense spreadsheet as of late: The normally cheap generic injectable or oral medication suddenly costing 20 or 50 times the normal price--if it can be had at all. Read More »