Canada is experiencing an acute shortage of nitroglycerin, forcing emergency measures. But with drug manufacturing being international, will it be the only country to suffer? Patients with coronary artery disease in Canada have been facing months of shortages of the nitroglycerin drugs used to treat angina pain, forcing government regulators to extend the expiry dates […]
drug shortages
Drugs are going missing, but why?
Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, a hematologist and medical historian at Queen’s University in Kingston, first became aware that certain drugs were sometimes getting hard to find in 2010, when her patient at a cancer clinic wanted to stop chemotherapy because she couldn’t get prochlorperazine, a common anti-nausea drug. Duffin was shocked. “I just couldn’t believe that […]