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 ...

It is now widely accepted that the United States is on the cusp of deepening shortages of physicians. This article will briefly review how these shortages could have been anticipated, how they are being manifested, and how policymakers were drawn to the contrary conclusion, and it will discuss the challenges that now exist as the nation undertakes to expand undergraduate and graduate medical ed...

At the request of the Assistant Secretary for Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee organized workshops in February 2002 and January 2005 to identify the reasons for vaccine shortages and to develop strategies to prevent shortages in the future. This supplement to Clinical Infectious Diseases includes presentations outlining...