Sen­ate Fi­nance Com­mit­tee to re­view fed­er­al poli­cies on drug short­ages

Sen­ate Fi­nance Com­mit­tee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) said Wednes­day his com­mit­tee plans to hold a hear­ing to look more close­ly at drug short­ages, which have been par­tic­u­lar­ly dif­fi­cult for some com­mon can­cer drugs, mon­o­clon­al an­ti­bod­ies tar­get­ed at RSV, ster­ile in­jecta­bles, and new obe­si­ty drugs.

The com­mit­tee will turn to four ex­perts at Tues­day’s hear­ing to bet­ter un­der­stand po­ten­tial pol­i­cy so­lu­tions from a fed­er­al per­spec­tive.

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