Angels for Change applauds Senator Kaine, Senator Cotton, Representative Spanberger, and Representative Smith for their bipartisan leadership in taking on the drug shortage crisis and advancing this vital work. We are proud to support the End Drug Shortages Act.
How Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Advancements are Meeting the Moment and Beyond panel at Milken Institute Future of Health Summit, moderated by Sarah Karlin-Smith from Citeline, with Panelists Laura Bray from Angels for Change, Shamiram Feinglass MD, MPH from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Kirk Kaminsky from McKesson and Vimala Raghavendran from US Pharmacopeia.
Angels for Change is proud to announce a significant milestone in Project PROTECT. Fagron Sterile Services US (FSS), a recipient of the 2023 Project PROTECT grant and a leader 503B outsourcing, has completed the Preparation and Protective phases for preservative-free Dextrose 70% injection solution. The significance of this achievement is highlighted by the recent flooding at Baxter's North Cove manufacturing site due to Hurricane Helene, which prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to include Dextrose on its drug shortage list as of October 12, 2024. The strategic preparations made through Project PROTECT, Dextrose will remain accessible to vulnerable patients, especially PICU and NICU babies, amid anticipated supply chain disruptions.
"This is a patient problem," said Bray. "This is a national problem. This is a global problem. The supply chain is very brittle. It breaks every day and there is no extra. And then what happens is, patients are prioritized, and some people get it and some people don't. And it's not always clear why."
Thank you Bloomberg and Riley Ray Griffin for discussing the US drug shortage crisis and interviewing our Chief Change Maker, Laura Bray.
“It is indescribably cruel to be faced with a shortage of a lifesaving drug,” Bray says. “How do you dangle a treatment before a child and then tell them they’re not important enough?” said Laura Bray.
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Thank you The New York Times and Emily Tucker for bringing awareness to America's drug shortage crisis and highlighting the work Angels for Change is doing to help patients in dire need. We look forward to continuing to partner with Emily and Marta Wosinska in 2024 as work to bring transparency and quantify some of the missing pieces in the race to end drug shortages.
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s new plan to curb drug shortages by boosting domestic drug production won’t expand the supply of the chemotherapies that are currently in shortage, an administration official confirmed. The limited scope surprised experts, who told STAT Biden could have included those drugs in the effort.
