Drug shortages
HHS proposes policies to prevent drug shortages. Find out how AHA is collaborating with the private sector to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities.
The FDA on June 2 told AHA that is has worked with Qilu Pharmaceuticals and Apotex Corp. to temporarily import cisplatin, a drug used in chemotherapy, after a national shortage.
New drug shortages increased nearly 30% last year to their highest level in almost five years, according to a report released last week by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for a hearing on the issue.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is asking hospitals to complete a questionnaire by Aug. 12
The AHA will continue to monitor the baby formula supply shortage and work with hospitals to ensure access to the needed supplies. Explore AHA’s and resources from the FDA, White House, HHS and others on this page.
The webpage offers resources to help during the formula shortage.
The action gives the HHS Secretary authority to allocate all ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula in response to the U.S. shortage.
The mental health bill includes AHA-supported legislation that would reauthorize and expand a program that addresses maternal depression.
In a letter today, AHA asked GE Healthcare to provide additional information to help member hospitals manage the current shortage of GE intraveneous contrast mediaproducts for computed tomography imaging.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday voted unanimously to advance the bills to the full committee.
A GE Healthcare facility that makes the contrast media in Shanghai, China, had to shut down temporarily due to a COVID-19 lockdown.