Out of Drugs: Planning for the Unthinkable
Out of Drugs: Planning for the Unthinkable https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/themes/corpus/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Dave Ghose https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f146b259ebc8ba9d52ea9ef823792abf?s=96&d=mm&r=gPediatric cancer specialists have faced an enormous challenge in recent years. With critical chemotherapy drugs often in short supply, they’ve been forced to improvise alternative treatments or purchase medicine from questionable secondary sources. These practices raise safety and ethical concerns. Emerging evidence indicates that shortages are harming patients in some instances, exposing them to more…