{"id":24634,"date":"2025-07-14T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24634"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:42:10","slug":"4-pressing-drug-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24634","title":{"rendered":"4 pressing drug shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By:\u00a0Alexandra Murphy for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the total number of drug shortages in the U.S. appears to be decreasing in 2025, some shortages of essential medications have yet to be resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin Fox, PharmD, senior pharmacy director at University of Utah Health, said a few persistent shortages continue to strain health systems, especially certain drugs essential to emergency, surgical and outpatient care.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/4-pressing-drug-shortages-2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/4-pressing-drug-shortages-2\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-10356\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pills.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pills.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/pills-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By:\u00a0Alexandra Murphy for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) While the total number of drug shortages in the U.S. appears to be decreasing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,15],"tags":[192,76,1828,1826,1827,1825],"class_list":["post-24634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-drug-shortages","tag-fda","tag-generic-injectables","tag-injectable-steroids","tag-iv-fluids","tag-lorazepam-injection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24635,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions\/24635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}