Posted on 01/03/2012 5:30:25 PM PST by bd476
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The number of new prescription drug shortages in 2011 shot up to 267, well above the prior record and about four times the number of medication shortages in the middle of the last decade.
Figures just released by the University of Utah Drug Information Service, which tracks national drug shortages, show there were 56 more newly reported drug shortages in the U.S. last year than in 2010, when there were 211. By contrast, there were only 58 drug shortages reported in 2004.
As the drug shortages worsen, so does their impact on patient care, particularly in hospitals. The inability to get crucial medicines has disrupted chemotherapy, surgery and care for patients with infections and pain. At least 15 deaths since 2010 have been blamed on the shortages, which have set a record high in each of the last five years.
"At the beginning of the year, we were on a pace of about a shortage every day," Erin R. Fox, manager of the service, told The Associated Press. "Luckily, that pace has definitely diminished."
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Besides disrupting patient care, the shortages have delayed clinical trials comparing experimental drugs to older ones and have led to unprecedented price gouging, with hospitals sometimes having to pay outrageous markups for scarce drugs.
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Sorry! Barlean’s is Olive Leaf Complex.
Agreed. And that means no significant research done on new drugs when profits fall. And that means that existing patents will be renewed and no generics added.
Incredible antiseptic/antibiotic properties.
The biggest scandal the corrupt Regime Media refuses to report on.
Basic cancer meds, including many for children, are missing.
Many essential medications in the Emergency Room are gone. It is all due to the Obama Regime and its utterly imcompetent medical bureaucracy.
I will wager anything that there are no shortages of these 267 medications in Washington.
Agree.
Agree. It's going to be a very bumpy ride for everyone.
I am an RN and work in the ICU. I have worked as a nurse for 19 years and this past year was the first time I can ever remember not having some drugs available. Diprovan, Heparin, certain IV antibiotics went out of stock and had our pharmacy scrambling to get replacements. We were buying our Propophol from another country at one point.
This is just a preview of what is coming.
KantianBurke, would you please copy and paste or even just link to the specific section in Medicare Part D which you claim ordered FDA to impose new restrictions which brought about these shortages.
Thanks.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks.
Agree and sadly this is just the beginning.
it used to be that you pretty much slept from the git go and remember nothing....
this is what voting for rats and third party people get us....a monster govt. attacking the smallest of comforts for we the peasants...
Here is a somewhat balanced report.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/12/12/gvsa1212.htm
Other reports the FDA pointing fingers at inept manufactures and imply drug company greed is the cause.
“Just another modus operandi for culling the population.”
And a big cost savings too! A twofer!
“folks go have a colonoscopy and have to be given a secondary drug instead of fentynal....you’ll be awake the whole time and feel every little jab like you’re being punched....and you’ll remember everything going on...”
There’s some kind of ironic statement that one could make here involving artificial shortages caused by over-regulation and feeling things being stuck up one’s $%#, but I can’t seem to find it...
What is oil of oregano good for?
“How in the hell could that possibly happen? There’s no reason Morphine couldn’t be as plentiful as Tobacco. It comes from Poppy flowers.....”
Seems to me that the Afghans have poppy plants by the bushel basket. You would THINK that we could get some, cheap.
FDA, BATFE, DOJ, EPA - all alphabet goobermint agencies have become forces for evil against their own citizens in the past few years.
The next few years are going to be very tense.
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