More policy work is needed to prevent future supply-chain disruptions and prioritize key drugs at the greatest risk for shortage, the authors say.
List of drugs that "when medically needed in acute care must be available and used within hours or days of the need or the patient may suffer serious outcomes which may include disability or death." Check the dashboards for the most recent shortages, or at the complete PDF list, updated every week.
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Companies need to get study labor laws, take steps to ensure employee health, analyze supply chains, and more.
The US depends heavily on drugs made in other countries, especially India and China.
Fully 56% of hospitals reported changing patient care or delaying therapy because of drug shortages.
Today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed one new case of Ebola in the ongoing outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, but the World Health Organization (WHO) spotlighted some troubling signs in its weeks update.
They say the world is not prepared for a pandemic.
"It seems we've lost an understanding of the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic."
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) today reported that six more states have suspected cases of monkeypox, a disease caused by a rare smallpox-like virus. There are now 31 suspected cases in seven states: Bayelsa, Rivers, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Ogun, and Cross River.