ASHP launches 'We're Your Pharmacist' public awareness campaign
The project will feature videos and written stories highlighting how hospital and health-system pharmacists improve patient health outcomes.
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The project will feature videos and written stories highlighting how hospital and health-system pharmacists improve patient health outcomes.
Jeff Bolle, 60, died of cancer seven months after losing access to his chemotherapy drug amid the nationwide drug shortage
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Pharmacists warned in a recent report that drug shortages in the U.S. have hit an all-time high. Some of these are critical life-saving medications such as cancer treatments.
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- Drug shortages have reached an all-time high in the United States, pharmacists are warning.During the first three months of 2024, there were 323 active medication shortages, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and Utah Drug Information Service. Previously, the record high was 320 shortages in 2014.This ASHP started tracking shortages in 2001."All drug classes are vulnerable to shortage," Dr. Paul Abramowitz, CEO of ASHP, said in a statement. "Some of the most worrying shortages involve generic sterile injectable...