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A quality-control crisis at an Indian pharmaceutical factory has left doctors and their patients with impossible choices as cheap, effective, generic cancer drugs go out of stock.
Scores of drugs to treat cancer, cardiovascular disease and other ailments are in shortage, and experts agree the main cause is the underlying weakness of the generic drug industry.
Many generic drugs for cancer and ADHD, blood thinners and antibiotics are in short supply, in part because there is little profit in making them
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
Scores of drugs to treat cancer, cardiovascular disease and other ailments are in shortage, and experts agree the main cause is the underlying weakness of the generic drug industry.