Tag: flu-vaccine

  • Drug shortages prompt question: are some medicines too cheap?

    By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Philip Aubrey buys medicines for British government-funded hospitals across London, capital of the world's fifth-largest economy, but last year he struggled to secure supplies of a basic AIDS drug. Shortages of essential drugs, mostly generic medicines whose patents have long expired, are becoming increasing frequent globally, prompting the World…