Senator eyes plan to ease prescription drug shortages

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Jan 4 2011

(Minneapolis-St.Paul) Pioneer Press: Senator Seeks To Ease Drug Shortage
As a shortage of some cancer drugs and certain other medications persists, a U.S. senator from Minnesota is proposing legislation she says will help federal regulators address the problem (Snowbeck, 12/28).

Star Tribune: A Push To Ease Prescription Drug Shortages
According to (Sen. Amy) Klobuchar (D-Minn.), 150 drugs are now considered in short supply in the United States -- twice as many as five years ago. As a result, she said, she plans to introduce legislation to speed up the availability of substitutes, including comparable drugs from other countries. (Lerner, 12/29).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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