shortfall. house and senate bills would require companies to give advance warning when they think they'll run out. the group of cancer doctors has started a nonprofit drug company. they're hoping they'll be able to import some of these medicines soon and eventually manufacture them themselves inasmuch what's the deal? you said they're older drugs. does that mean that the pharmaceutical companies are focusing on newer, more expensive drugs, more profitable drug as soon as why is this happening? >> that's part of it. the drug companies go where the money is. there are a couple of other reasons. the majority of the shortages are because inspectors found contamination problems with batches of the drugs. contamination cases that could kill a patient. some advocates say that's because so many are made in foreign plants that the f.d.a. doesn't inspect. but the f.d.a. says that others occurred because the companies aren't interested in making drugs that have such a low profit margin. gregg? >> gregg: you're right. they go where the money is. allall right. caroline shively live in washington. thanks for that report. >> heather: prescription drugs also a problem on our southern
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