drug shortage

The company says its factory near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, makes nearly 25% of Pfizer's sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals

The shortage comes as there has been a steady increase in rates of syphilis since 2000. Inventory can start depleting as early as this month, Pfizer said.

The recent, abrupt shortage of critical cancer drugs is forcing doctors to ration essential medications. It highlights a broken business model in generic drugs.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network says that nearly all the centers it surveyed late last month were dealing with shortages of carboplatin and cisplatin.

Drug shortages continue as Florida health care experts navigate what some expect to be the new normal of pharmacy.

Due to a national drug shortage, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital says it is going through emergency supplies to make ends meet.

Children who need growth hormone to achieve their full stature are having trouble getting the medicine. A shortage has stretched months longer than expected and could last the rest of the year.

Drug shortages are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them. For patients, that could mean more treatment delays, medication switches and other hassles filling a prescription.

Strep throat is more prevalent this year, and amoxicillin manufacturers didn't make enough of the antibiotic to go around.

Reliance on foreign manufacturers is the top reason the U.S. struggles to head off shortages, says Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat who chairs the Homeland security committee.