“Unacceptable proportions”: why the shortage of medicines is worsening in France

2023-12-14 07:30:23

At the end of last week, the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) invited doctors to no longer “initiate treatment with Ozempic, Victoza or Trulicity”, drugs which have a “therapeutic interest” in the management of insufficiently controlled type 2 diabetes. Behind the terms used, the public establishment encouraged specialists to no longer prescribe these molecules to new diabetic patients, due to lack of sufficient reserves. Every day or almost, a new name extends the list of missing health products. . Antibiotics, antidiuretics, antiarrhythmics, analgesics: all therapeutic classes are affected. The scourge is not recent. Tensions on supplies have

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