US hospitals scramble as supplies of sodium bicarbonate solution dwindle
Doctors juggle chemotherapy and postpone surgery as the country's only two suppliers have run out
New York
SUPPLIERS of a simple, critical medication - sodium bicarbonate solution - have run out, leaving doctors to juggle chemotherapy and postpone surgery.
Hospitals around the US are scrambling to stockpile vials of a critical drug - even postponing operations or putting off chemotherapy treatments - because the country's only two suppliers have run out.
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