News / Pharma supply shortages drive calls for more integrated supply chains

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Drug maker Pfizer sounded the alarm on 11 June that it would be running out of a drug to treat bacterial infections in children by the end of the month, owing to a need to prioritise versions of the drug for adults. In a letter to the US health regulator Pfizer wrote that it expected supply of the pediatric drug to be exhausted by the end of the quarter.

Another penicillin product, used to treat respiratory infections, may run out of ...