An analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University finds China supplies US drug manufacturers with more than 60% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make antibiotics.
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More than 20,000 approved prescription drugs and 13,000 facilities are registered to make active pharmaceutical ingredients or finished-dose products.
While poor-quality and contaminated drugs endanger consumers in many countries, including the US, they can be catastrophic in those not equipped to conduct inspections.
Some widely used antibiotics, such as amoxicillin, which is often used to treat ear and chest infections in children, have been in shortage in Europe since October.
The EU looks to amend laws to require increasing stocks of essential medicines and offering more timely notifications of shortages.
The total volume of anticoagulants and antiplatelet medications at US hospitals fell 43% at the onset of the pandemic.
HHS is expanding access through stockpiles that had been reserved for use in a future flu pandemic.
CVS and Walgreens announce limits on the number of children's pain medications that customers can buy.
The demand comes in anticipation of a COVID-19 surge in China amid looser public health restrictions.
The guidance prioritizes the treatment of flu in high-risk patients amid shortages of the generic antiviral drug.
Amid COVID-19 surges, people are scrambling to stockpile over-the-counter pain and fever medications.
