Cancer and schizophrenia drugs among nearly 400 medicines at risk of shortage in UK

Other at-risk medicines, according to Medicines UK, which represents manufacturers of generic drugs in the UK, include ukokinase, which is used to treat blood clots and pulmonary embolism – a life-threatening blockage of the lung that can cause a stroke – and flupentixol, which is used to treat schizophrenia.

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That’s the big nightmare. That somehow there will be a economical reason to no longer produce or procure the medication we are on.

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