– MORE WORK NEEDED TO EASE EU MEDICINE SHORTAGES, SAYS WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONS
February 1st, 2016
A REPORT on industry-regulator discussions staged last year on how to prevent, ease and better manage medicine shortages within the European Union (EU) has concluded common agreement on defining such problems would be valuable. The proposal comes from discussions during a European Medicine Agency (EMA) workshop in the issue staged last October (2015). Conclusions from the meeting have now been released and include a recommendation that a “harmonised definition of a medicine shortage and a common understanding of the evolution of potential supply disruptions” ...
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