Recent drug shortages of amoxicillin, Tamiflu and now infant and Children's Tylenol have caused concern among parents and pediatricians, but Northwestern Medicine pharmacist Dr. Sterling Elliott said "we've been seeing and consciously managing drug shortages across the board in excess of five years now."
"This is pulling back the curtain on what has been a very ugly scenario for years," said Elliott, an assistant professor of orthopaedics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "Drug shortages have been plaguing this country for years across the board. Now it really hits home because it's little kids being affected in aisles of grocery stores and pharmacies, but this is a much bigger story than mom and dad not being able to get liquid ibuprofen for their kids."
