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Latest Medicine shortage alerts
- Update: Limited semaglutide (Ozempic) supplyThere remains an increased global demand for semaglutide products which is impacting availability and certainty of supply of Ozempic (semaglutide) in Australia until early 2023.
- Joint statement: Shortage of tenecteplase (Metalyse)Recommendations for clinicians to implement conservation methods
- Shortage of tenecteplase (Metalyse)Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) has advised the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of a shortage of tenecteplase (Metalyse) injection that is predicted to extend over the next 18 months.
- Shortage of iodinated contrast media (contrast) diagnostic agentsStatement update
- Shortage of abatacept (Orencia) medicines: ResolvedBristol-Myers Squibb Australia Pty Ltd (BMS), have announced that the shortage of abatacept (Orencia) subcutaneous (SC) presentations has been resolved.
- New legislation to support medicine substitutionsNew legislation has been passed allowing pharmacists to substitute a medicine when the patient's usual medicine is in 'serious scarcity'.