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Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries

  • May 23, 2017

Sodium bicarbonate — commonly known as baking soda — is in short supply, much to the consternation of health facilities that use solutions of it for everything from chemotherapy to open heart surgery. As noted by The New York Times, this is just one of many drug shortfalls that have occurred in the past few years — typically happening with cheaper, generic drugs, while high-dollar ones remain in good supply. While the article doesn’t delve into Big Pharma profit...