Opinion: Tackling drug shortages with data, AI, legislation, and more
Drug shortages can have profound adverse consequences. Identifying their root causes and devising workable solutions for them will require a multi-stakeholder effort with more accountability and greater agility than we've…
Every quarter since 2014, roughly 150 to 300 drugs have been in short supply in the U.S. The drug shortages list has included injectable morphine and other painkillers, anesthetics, antibiotics, cancer drugs, medications for mental illness, and much more.
In June 2018, a bipartisan group of 31 U.S. senators and 104 members of the House of Representatives in hopes of addressing the nation’s drug shortage crisis. The had shown that the number of ongoing drug shortages was increasing, some lasting longer than eight years. done by the FDA in early 2020 found that while there have
