Thursday, October 13, 2011

The current list of drug shortages

Serious medication shortages spreading

"...And because most of these drugs have been off-patent for years, some drug companies don’t want to spend the money to upgrade lines to produce drugs with slim profit margins. 


Sometimes it is sort supply of raw material, sometime they have to shut down for quality reasons.  But letting people die because there is no profit in saving them?  I get it, but it the government is partly at fault because of the big pharma lobby getting their way potentially shutting down smaller companies who could develop an alternative