Additional authorities and resources are needed to develop a manufacturer resiliency assessment program and hospital resilient supply program, HHS says.
The group requested details on implementation progress by April 1.
The CDC recommends that healthcare providers use the Tdap vaccine rather than the Td vaccine in patients without a pertussis vaccine contraindication.
In the event of administrative removal of these products, clinicians and consumers could substitute oral pseudoephedrine or intranasal decongestants such as phenylephrine or oxymetazoline, the authors say.
As of 2022, 58% of makers of drugs bound for the US market were located overseas, the report notes.
It's unknown when supplies of the Pfizer's penicillin G drug will be replenished.
Disease severity climbed significantly from before the pandemic to 2021 and 2022 to 2023 among children younger than 6 months to 1 year.
Health officials are releasing 77,000 more doses, with supply stretched by higher-than-expected demand for the new tool for protecting newborns.
The reasons for the shortages include an overreliance on offshore manufacturing, increased demand, and less manufacturing of generic drugs.
The country struggles with low DPT vaccination levels, especially in the outbreak area.
The countries had procured about 916,120 Paxlovid courses, compared with a minimum need for 9,135,953 courses.
A pediatric hospital system wasted 58,607 antibiotic doses, including drugs in limited US supply.
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Penicillin G is on CIDRAP's Resilient Drug Supply Project's list of 156 critical acute drugs.
Producers should reduce long-term inequities in access to medical liquid oxygen in low- and middle-income countries, experts say.
Three of five US makers report shortages, which result from increased demand and manufacturing delays.
The lawmakers say that while the shortages have eased, supplies haven't been completely replenished.
Experts fear the incident could hamper the US-China medical supply chain, including upending FDA regulatory inspections.
The shortage is leading to delays in the testing of deer samples submitted by hunters.
The EU looks to amend laws to require increasing stocks of essential medicines and offering more timely notifications of shortages.
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.
Amid COVID-19 surges, people are scrambling to stockpile over-the-counter pain and fever medications.
Americans with ADHD are struggling to find good alternatives to the stimulant Adderall.