Drug shortages in the US – their causes, both direct and indirect, and challenges and approaches in how best to alleviate them – was naturally a recurring theme across the Association for Accessible Medicines’ Access! two-day annual conference, held earlier this month in Tampa, Florida.
‘You Step Up, You Bring Things Back To Market’: CDER’s Corrigan-Curay On Shortages
Corrigan-Curay Praises Industry While Reiterating Help For More Reliable Manufacturing
Principal deputy director of the US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, used part of her 20-minute keynote address at the recent AAM Access! annual conference to focus on drug shortages that persist across the US.

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