Subcommittee on health with representatives from the pharmaceutical industry and policy stakeholders. This is three hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we will come to order. The committee will come to order and the chair will recognize himself for an opening statement. Todays hearing is focus on the critical topic of finding longterm solutions to prevent future drug shortages of key drugs for patients. For months, Cancer Patients including pediatric Cancer Patients, have had to scramble to find the drugs recommended or use alternatives because of instability in the markets and supply chains. In 2022 alone there were over, there were 301 drugs enacted shortages according to the university of utah. For over a decade professions and a medical and Regulatory Community has sounded the alarm on the underlying economic causes of drug shortages. Unforeseen circumstances like a tornado hitting a pharmaceutical warehouse in North Carolina, or a manufacturing facility in i
Subcommittee on health with representatives from the pharmaceutical industry and policy stakeholders. This is three hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we will come to order. The committee will come to order and the chair will recognize himself for an opening statement. Todays hearing is focus on the critical topic of finding longterm solutions to prevent future drug shortages of key drugs for patients. For months, Cancer Patients including pediatric Cancer Patients, have had to scramble to find the drugs recommended or use alternatives because of instability in the markets and supply chains. In 2022 alone there were over, there were 301 drugs enacted shortages according to the university of utah. For over a decade professions and a medical and Regulatory Community has sounded the alarm on the underlying economic causes of drug shortages. Unforeseen circumstances like a tornado hitting a pharmaceutical warehouse in North Carolina, or a manufacturing facility in i
Agency is attracting professionals back to the continent where their skills are desperately needed. And we meet a very special woman who has dramatically changed the lives of hundreds of street kids. World wide at least one hundred fifty million children live on the streets not just in korea countries in germany an estimated thirty two thousand children and young people have no roof over their heads in britain the figure is as high as one hundred twenty thousand. In nigeria more than one point two million children have left their homes many of them fleeing the Terror Group Boko Haram in china one point five million children are homeless and in one of the worlds richest countries the u. S. That number is more than two point five million. In brazil ten million street kids. For survival on a daily basis in ukraine we met a woman from ghana who has dedicated her life to caring for Street Children. Ten years ago Harriet Bruce anon brought these street kids to an orphanage she founded. And h
Are fresh elections are i want to tell you now about a touching story in israel where a one hundred two year old holocaust survivor has been reunited with a nephew you never knew we had well they discovered their Family Connection thanks to an online database of Holocaust Victims created by israels holocaust memorial. It may be one of the happiest days of his long long life at the hour who has finally met the nephew he never knew existed until two weeks ago. When he thought his entire family had perished in the second boat war. Im so happy i can talk to you and see you such a good man and you are a copy of your father. John xander a son of piotr younger brother who died six years ago. Now he has come at his fathers place all the way from russia. It really made me very happy that there is at least one other remnant from my brother. And that is his son. Pietro was only twenty four when he fled poland for the us s. R. In one nine hundred thirty nine. His parents of one of the standard bro
This week global three thousand is off to the Brazilian Rainforest where a small berry has become a global hit how is it grown. In africa an Employment Agency is attracting professionals back to the continent where their skills are desperately needed. And we meet a very special woman who has dramatically changed the lives of hundreds of street kids. Well and wide at least one hundred fifty million children live on the streets not just in korea countries in germany an estimated thirty two thousand children and young people have no roof over their heads in britain the figure is as high as one hundred twenty thousand. In nigeria more than one point two million children have left their homes many of them. In fleeing the Terror Group Boko Haram in china one point five million children are homeless and in one of the worlds richest countries the u. S. That number is more than two point five million. In brazil ten million street kids fight for survival on a daily basis in ukraine we met a woma