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FDA: New suppliers to ease 2 cancer drug shortages

A file photo of Food and Drug Administration

Photo credit: AP | A file photo of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg in Washington. (April 19, 2011)

Federal regulators said Tuesday that they've approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages — at least for the time being — that have left patients and parents frightened about missing life-saving treatments.

The news brings a light at the end of the tunnel for some patients, but not for thousands of others, given that there are currently 283 separate drugs...

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