US healthcare groups recommend ways of tackling ongoing drug shortages Recommendations for addressing ongoing shortages of essential medicines have been made by a group of US healthcare organisations.…
Drug shortages: it’s time for Europe to act Unlike the United States, Europe has no plan for coordinated action to mitigate drug shortages.…
Drug manufacturers propose alert system to mitigate medicine shortages European drug manufacturers have developed a communications framework which they claim could help prevent medicines shortages or lessen their impact.…
EURMED launched to facilitate medicines donations in response to global appealsAn initiative described as a “step change” in the ability of the European pharmaceutical industry to donate medicines in response to global disasters or appeals for humanitarian aid has been launched.…
Conflict in Ukraine leads to disruption to HIV and TB treatmentPeople in Ukraine infected with HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis have faced interrupted treatment, says a UN report on the protracted conflict.…
Drones to deliver drugs to remote German pharmacy An unmanned ‘parcelcopter’ will deliver drugs and other urgent supplies to a remote island in the North Sea, a few miles off the coast of Germany.…
Paediatric formulations of tuberculosis drugs are urgently needed as the disease re-emerges Unless there are new paediatric formulations of drugs for tuberculosis, it is likely that multidrug resistant strains of the disease will develop.…
Supply shortages of antiretrovirals can have devastating consequences for patients Medication non-adherence is not always within the patient’s control. Poor supply chain management and natural or other disasters can threaten access as well.…
.pharmacy web address to go live in early 2015 Applications to use the generic top-level internet domain “.pharmacy” will open by the end of 2014 in the United States.…
Healthcare at Home has further two months to tackle service problems A home delivery medicine service with responsibility for more than 150,000 patients has been given another two months to get its house in order.…
