Gyógyszerhiány Franciaországban • Pharmaceutical Drug Shortage in France

The drug shortage crisis.

Drug shortage registry under discussion.

ciation is negotiating with drug manufacturers, hospital pharmacists and the Canadian Medical Association to create a national reporting system that would track drug shortages. “We still have a long way to go, but the discussions have started,” says Jeff Morrison, director of government relations and public affairs for the Canadian Pharmacists Association. Recent shortages of cancer drugs such ...

Anatomy of a drug shortage.

A long time has passed since I last gave chemotherapy, but I have not been immune to the news about the drug shortages in the past few years. Therefore, I wanted to explore what was behind the headlines like “U.S. facing cancer drug shortage: Ariz. doctors rationing supplies; FDA allowing India imports” in the February 22nd Arizona Business News (Alltucker, 2012). You may have been more directl...

Ethical framework for resource allocation during a drug supply shortage.

Drug supply shortages are common in health systems due to manufacturing and other delays. Frequently, shortages are successfully addressed through conservation and redistribution efforts, with limited impact on patient care. However, when Sandoz Canada Inc. announced in February 2012 that it was reducing production of a number of generic injectable drugs at its Quebec facility, the scope and ma...

Drug tendering: drug supply and shortage implications for the uptake of biosimilars

Due to the continued increase in global spending on health care, payers have introduced a number of programs, policies, and agreements on pharmaceutical pricing in order to control costs. While incentives to increase generic drug use have achieved significant savings, other cost-containment measures are required. Tendering is a formal procedure to purchase medications using competitive bidding ...