Drug Shortage Crisis Worsens
200-Plus Products Are In Short Supply In Most EU Countries
Executive Summary
As efforts continue to find ways of mitigating medicine shortages, a European survey has found not only that the situation is worsening, but that efforts to improve things are hindered by the patchwork of different rules on substitution and importation across the EU.
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