Boosting Australia’s ability to make pharmaceuticals sounds like a great way to ease medicine shortages. But there are simpler, cheaper options we could try first.
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It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
Restricting drug access can make the overdose crisis worse, not better. A bioethicist explains what that means for an ethical drug policy.
COVID-19 has resulted in higher than normal levels of medicine shortages. Here’s what to do if your local pharmacy is out of stock.
Toilet paper shortages were bad enough. A shortage of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic would be worse. A provision in the Canadian government’s relief package aims to prevent that from happening.
Similar laws in the US have actually led to increasing the risk of fatal drug overdoses.
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer and Researcher, Supply Chains and Operations, Victoria University
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Pharmacist and PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Director and Taylor Family Chair, Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Pharmaceutical Supply Chains, The University of Queensland