EMA Begins Setting Up New Bodies To Tackle Drug Shortages
Workshop To Be Held To Explain Agency's Expanded Role
Executive Summary
A new EU regulation has come into effect, giving the European Medicines Agency wider powers to monitor, prevent and manage shortages of medicines and medical devices in public health emergencies. A number of steering groups and other bodies and networks are being set up to put the new systems into action.
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