FDA: New suppliers to ease 2 cancer drug shortages

February 21, 2012, 12:03 pm by Associated Press Healthwire

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Federal regulators said Tuesday that they've approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages - at least for the time being - that have left patients and parents frightened about missing life-saving treatments....

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