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A cyber attack on America s largest health insurer has left patients across the country unable to access prescriptions amid drug shortages patients (top and bottom right) are experiencing.
DailyMail.com has heard from families across the US who are falling victim to the crisis in drug shortages, with patients as young as 9 denied vital medication.
Laura Bray, a mom from Florida, learned of the drug shortage first-hand when her daughter (left) was diagnosed with leukemia and the hospital ran out of the $10 drug she needed for treatment.
Ryan Dwars, 39, a special education teacher from Iowa City, Iowa, nearly had to go without cisplatin, the chemo drug he takes for stage IV pancreatic cancer, the third deadliest cancer in the US.