Drugs' scarcity strains care: Cancer patients may be affected - El Paso Times
Shortages of drugs used to treat everything from leukemia to black widow spider bites
are putting patients at risk -- nationally and more recently in El Paso. And there
appears to be no long-term solution in sight.
... Although drug shortages have been a problem since the 1990s, the scarcity of cancer treatment drugs has worsened in the last year, said Dr. Zeina Nahleh, chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology in the Texas Tech Paul L. Foster School of Medicine's Department of Internal Medicine. The only good news is that, so far, neither Nahleh nor Robert Reilly, University Medical Center associate pharmacy director, are aware of harm to patients in the El Paso area. |
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