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Drug Shortages Send Hospitals Scrambling For Replacements

A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses — from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest — has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment.

2011/05/31

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