'“Doctor, We Have No Saline Today”: The Curious Case of the Generic Injectable Drug Shortage'
Academic Emergency Medicine, July 5, 2014
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Safe Harbor Cost Analysis, Jan. 20, 2019
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"As they fight flu, hospitals cope with shortage of IV fluids"
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 14, 2018
Letter to the Editor. [In response to article of Nov. 2, "In Pharmaceutical
Pricing, Scarcity Overrules Regulation"]
Barron's, Nov. 16, 2015
"Hospital Drug Shortages: What is Really Causing Them?"
Medill News Service, May 26, 2016
"Elizabeth Warren Plan Would Allow the Government to Manufacture its Own Generic Drugs"
The Intercept, Dec. 18, 2018
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Statement of Mitchell Goldstein M. D. before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on GPOs, April 30, 2002
"Blog: Senator says GPOs may play role in high healthcare costs"
Modern Healthcare, Mar. 29, 2016
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Comments to Food and Drug Administration in response to request for comment on root causes of drug shortages, Jan.10, 2019
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Comments to Health & Human Services Inspector General in response to request for comment on proposal to rescind safe harbor for Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) rebates, April, 8, 2019
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PADS Comments, Testimony and Other Documents
"Letter: Congress Should Repeal "Safe Harbor" Provision"
Bend Bulletin (Oregon), March 12, 2017
"President Trump Can End Shortages, Reduce Prices by Promoting Competition"
Investors Business Daily, Apr. 2, 2018
"Where Does the Law Against Kickbacks Not Apply? Your Hospital"
The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2018
"Generic Drugs: Low Supply and High Prices"
Sentinel: Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter, Spring 2016
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Letters to the Editor, "Drug Rebates Help Many, but Not Patients"
The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24, 2018, [in response to oped of Sept. 16, 2018, "Drug Rebates Aren't 'Kickbacks'"]
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"Forum: Blumenthal's Silence Deafening on Root Cause of Surging Generic Drug Prices"
New Haven Register, Jan. 11, 2016
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"Public Outcry Over U. S. Generic Drug Price Hikes"
Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Oct. 6, 2015
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"Phillip Zweig on Legalized Kickbacks in Healthcare"
Corporate Crime Reporter, Apr. 23, 2018
"Identifying the Root Cause of Drug Shortages: A Call to Action"
Anesthesiology News, Oct. 25, 2018
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"Drug Costs, Drug Shortages, & Group Purchasing Organizations"
Sentinel [Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists], Summer 2018
"Group Purchasing Organizations: Gaming the System"
Journal of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Summer 2018
"Hospitals, foundations launch Civica RX, first nonprofit drug-making company"
Washington Times, Sept. 6, 2018
"Blumenthal Seeks Answers on whether health purchasing groups are costing consumers"
New Haven Register, Mar. 28, 2016
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"A Potential Unexpected Consequence of Drug Shortages on Long-Term Prescribing Patterns"
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, May 1, 2015
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"Emergency Room Doctors, Paramedics Decry Shortage of Sugar, Salt Water"
NBC NEWS 4 NEW YORK, June 4, 2015
"J&J's Solution to the Compassionate-Use Hot Potato"
Life Science Leader Magazine, May 18, 2015
"Expectation of drug shortages has become 'new norm' for cancer care"
HemOnc Today, Feb. 10, 2015
"There's a National Shortage of Saline Solution. Yeah, We're Talking Salt Water. Huh?"
Fortune, Feb. 5, 2015
"How to Stop Generic Drug Shortages: End Hospital Group Purchasing Kickbacks"
Fortune.com, Jan. 30, 2015
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Presentation by PADS co-chair Margaret D. Clapp, former chief of pharmacy at Massachusetts General Hospital, to the Society of Critical Care Medicine annual Congress Jan. 20, 2015 on how GPOs caused the drug shortages
"Chemotherapy Drug Shortages in the United States Revisited"
Journal of Oncology Practice, Sept. 2014
PADS in the NEWS
Articles By Physicians Against Drug Shortages
Articles About Physicians Against Drug Shortages
"Anesthesiologists Voice Frustration Over Continued Drug Shortages"
Medscape, Oct. 17, 2012,
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"Schumer defends system that creates shortages of critical prescription drugs"
Buffalo News, Mar. 16, 2014