Peters Launches Investigation Into Drug Shortages, High Drug Prices

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ranking Democrat Sen. Gary Peters (MI) on Tuesday (Nov. 5) launched an investigation to identify solutions to high drug prices and drug shortages, which he said raise serious health, economic and national security threats. Peters will probe how drug shortages affect patients as well as the national security implications of the country’s growing reliance on drugs manufactured in China and India. Peters launched the probe just days after FDA released a drug shortages...