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State allows hospitals to share drugs to avoid shortages

Massachusetts public health regulators Wednesday adopted emergency regulations that will allow hospitals to share medications to address drug shortages created by the closure of two specialty pharmacies following a national outbreak of fungal meningitis.

The rules adopted by the state’s public health council, an appointed board of professors, clinicians, and public health advocates, will go into effect Dec. 1.

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