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Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx aims to cure a health care system ailment

  • Written by Stacie B. Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University
Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx aims to cure a health care system ailmentSupply and demand are often out of sync in the drug industry.Wasant/Shutterstock.com

Several years ago, drug shortages became headline news when supplies of three different drugs used to treat childhood cancers were running low in major hospitals. Sometimes shortages like those are resolved before patients are harmed. Sometimes they are not.

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