Global Supply Chain Scrutiny And Investment In Domestic Alternatives For US Drug Shortages

Pharmaceutical supply chains may grow less efficient and less risk prone as US government gets more involved to ensure availability of pandemic and essential medicines. But what about pediatric oncology medicines and other treatments that save lives even though they may not be considered essential?    

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Just a few months after she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) Laura Bray’s daughter Abby, then nine, encountered her first drug shortage.

Abby was among the 20% of ALL patients who develop allergies to E-coli-based enzymes used in the normally curative standard ALL treatment protocol to kill leukemic cells and must switch...

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