Over 200 critical medicines to be monitored for shortages in the EU 

More than 200 med­i­cines at risk of short­ages in the EU have been list­ed as crit­i­cal by the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion, the Heads of Med­i­cines Agen­cies and the EMA.

The list­ed med­i­cines are not nec­es­sar­i­ly go­ing to be in short­age in the near fu­ture but should be pre­vent­ed from run­ning out, “as a short­age could cause sig­nif­i­cant harm to pa­tients and pose im­por­tant chal­lenges to health sys­tems,” Tues­day’s re­lease said.

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