Parents, pharmacists, and pediatricians have scrambled for months to find antibiotics for children amid one of the worst winters for respiratory illnesses, strep throat, and ear infections. Children's fever reducers, in particular, were missing from the shelves of pharmacies for weeks. It shouldn't be so hard to find common generic medicines.
After working for more than 20 years on drug shortages, Erin Fox, PharmD, is not burnt out. She is the associate chief pharmacy officer for shared services at University of Utah Health affiliated with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
/PRNewswire/ The sudden drop in use of the COVID treatment remdesivir was the main cause of a 5.2% dip in drug spending for hospitals last year compared to.
As the U.S. grapples with a 10-year-high of ongoing drug shortages, there are three pressing drug supply issues for hospitals, according to Erin Fox, PharmD, associate chief pharmacy officer for shared services at University of Utah Health.