'Nightmare for patients': the key medicines causing distress over shortages

'Nightmare for patients': the key medicines causing distress over shortages

Australian medicine shortages impact ADHD, diabetes and menopause treatments, says Darby St pharmacy owner John Jones, among 400 medicine shortage on TGA list.

When there is a shortage of medicines, the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) can turn to neighboring countries to import some drugs that are not authorized in Spain, approve exceptional authorizations of medicines with labels in other languages or stop the export of drugs, among others. In the second half of 2024, there were 1,631 actions in these lines, 30% more than the same period of the previous year. Depletion in Euro…

Australia’s medicine supply shortages explained

Patients are struggling to fill their prescriptions in the face of hundreds of medication shortages across the country. As of March, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has more than 400 medications listed as experiencing shortages, whereas in March 2022 that number was at 263. Which drugs are impacted and why? Ongoing shortages include ADHD medication Concerta, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) patches and diabetes medication Ozempic. Th…