comprehensive -WSS

comprehensive

author：knowledge 2025-09-30 16:26:38 - browse：7478

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 27: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about supply chain resilience during an event in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on November 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. — President Biden spoke about supply chain resilience and drug shortages. Alex Wong/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s new plan to curb drug shortages by boosting domestic drug production won’t expand the supply of the chemotherapies that are currently in shortage, an administration official confirmed. The limited scope surprised experts, who told STAT Biden could have included those drugs in the effort.

The 15 cancer drugs in short supply account for only a little more than 10% of the drugs on FDA’s shortage list. But chemotherapies are far more crucial than many other drugs experiencing shortages, which include injections of amino acids and multivitamins, and sterile water. Gut-wrenching stories about cancer patients being switched to less-effective drugs have caused cancer doctors to agitate for government solutions.

Biden announced last week that he plans to use the Defense Production Act to get companies to make essential medicines and their ingredients in the United States. The administration will spend $35 million to boost domestic production of key starting materials for drugs that hospitals commonly use and are prone to shortages.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： Guidelines to prevent youth baseball injuries need more muscle
Next article： Change Healthcare cyberattack outage could last weeks

hotspot

WSS

An inside look at PIPEs, biotech's buzzy new financing tool

Readout Newsletter: Ironwood, Pfizer, FogPharma updates

5 takeaways from STAT's examination of Zynex Medical

Biotech companies concerned about China biosecurity crackdown

Kenai launches with $82 million for Parkinson’s stem cell therapy

ALS patient reclaims some autonomy thanks to wearable 'robot'

knowledge

comprehensive

knowledge

State Dept. review finds Biden bears some blame for Afghanistan failures

Cigna wins case to block Amy Bricker's move to CVS

Food as medicine: CMS rules hamper 'prescribing' of fruits, veggies

The system is set up to fail children with medical complexity

Medical leaders decry Supreme Court decision on affirmative action

International team creates first chimeric human

Alkermes shareholders re

The system is set up to fail children with medical complexity

State Dept. review finds Biden bears some blame for Afghanistan failures

Readers discuss the intersection of pregnancy and addiction

leisure time

STAT Virtual Event: ASCO Recap, Live!

Medical device trials still don't enroll enough women, study finds

Stephen Quake on the Chan Zuckerberg quest to conquer disease

California wildfire smoke linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says

A Q&A with Aletha Maybank, AMA’s chief health equity officer

My daughter's legacy lives on through her writing, phage therapy

hotspot

hotspot

knowledge

hotspot