某些处方药物供应吃紧FDA发布报告称，今年有200多种处方药物出现短缺。癌症患者诉称不得不使用疗效稍差些的替代药物，而一些需要做手术的患者则不得不推迟安排。最难觅的是更早些的注射类药物，它们的制造、储存和运输过程更加复杂。
In November, President Obama signed an executive order expanding the FDA's authority to require drugmakers to report situations that could lead to shortages.
11月，总统奥巴马签署行政命令扩大FDA的职权范围，使其可以要求药商汇报可能导致药品短缺的情况。
HPV shots - for boys, too. A vaccine to prevent infection with HPV, the human papillomavirus, was approved in 2006. But the shots made headlines in September when Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested — inaccurately — in a Republican presidential debate that they could cause mental retardation.
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