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Chocolate Shortage Looms Ahead of Easter 2024

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As Easter 2024 approaches, a concerning chocolate shortage threatens to cast a shadow over the season’s celebrations. This shortage, attributed to a combination of factors including poor cocoa harvests in West Africa, is poised to impact chocolate lovers worldwide.

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STAT+: Drugmaker raises the price of an old chemo medicine tenfold amid persistent shortages

STAT News

Amid sporadic shortages of a drug that is essential in preparing patients for lifesaving, cancer-fighting treatments, one manufacturer has returned to the market — but is selling its medicine for 10 to 20 times the prices offered by the only other companies with available supplies. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic Shortage Spurs Demand for Eli Lilly’s Diabetes Injection Mounjaro

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Eli Lilly is finding itself in an enviable position with its newly launched diabetes injection Mounjaro (tirzepatide) and blockbuster diabetes med Trulicity due to temporary shortages of competitor Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Ozempic (semaglutide). Lilly is also looking to pitch Mounjaro as an obesity drug and directly take on Novo’s Wegovy.

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Grand Rounds June 2, 2023: PROACT Xa and The Wizard of Oz: Behind the Curtain of a Pragmatic Decentralized Clinical Trial (John Alexander, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The pragmatic elements were already in place so when COVID happened the main thing that had the biggest impact on our study was the shortage of study coordinators that effected every trial, and a few of our study sites went under due to difficulty of staffing and sustaining a research enterprise. We never had an amendment to the protocol.

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How COVID-19 Impacted the Food Supply Chain For Better and for Worse

XTalks

Where flour, pasta and other shelf-stable goods once sat in abundance quickly emptied to nothing but price tags. Rather than looking solely at the food supply chain itself, it is imperative to take into account other factors that influenced food shortages around the nation. The same went for meat and dairy.

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How automation can help to address supply chain challenges in pharma

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Incidents such as the hormone replacement therapy drug shortage in early 2022 have shown the damaging impact supply chain issues can have on people who depend on these drugs. To combat such challenges, pharmaceutical companies need to adopt processes that are not just efficient, but agile.

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Tackling the Challenges of Limited Resources During a Pandemic

The Pharma Data

meaning global supply shortages need no longer. L volumes, even for notoriously difficult liquid classes like the 100% acetonitrile used to store the Tandem Mass Tags (TMT). By integrating the MANTIS liquid handler into. an existing RT-qPCR workflow for COVID-19 testing, consistent and reliable contact-free dispensing. The MANTIS.

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