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The Growing Lack of Prescription Drugs

Importing Generic Drugs Could Ease U.S. Shortages

by Chloe Searchinger, Allison Krugman, Thomas J. Bollyky

Two-thirds of generic sterile injectable drugs in shortage could be imported from well-regulated foreign markets

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Eight blue cans of baby formula with white, orange, and green labels that read "Similac" stand in stacks of two on a pharmacy shelf.

Behind Baby Formula and Drug Shortages

by Howard Sklamberg

How supply chains break down for life-saving products

A mother with long brown hair reads the label of a formula can in front of partially-empty grocery store shelves amid a nationwide shortage in Houston, Texas, on May 19, 2022.
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How the U.S. Baby Formula Shortage Affects Low-Income Families

Families living in poverty are making impossible trade-offs between food, rent, and essentials like formula and diapers