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EP 1,160B - Drug Quality and Drug Shortages and What We Can Do About It
Category: Health
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2023-08-08 06:00:00
Description: ep-1-160b-drug-quality-and-drug-shortages-and-what-we-can-do-about-itThe U.S. likes to tell consumers that generic drugs are just as safe and effective as their brand-name counterparts. But are they?Professor Tinglong Dai discusses a current cancer drug shortage that was caused by a deplorable foreign manufacturing facility that stopped exporting chemotherapy drugs to the U.S. after an  inspection that revealed "a cascade of failures." But it could be worse — 4 Americans have died and 8 have been blinded after using generic eyedrops made in a foreign facility that was never inspected by the . In 2022, the  inspected only 6% of the nearly 3,000 foreign drug manufacturing facilities. America relies on these facilities for most of our prescription drugs.
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