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Families face human growth hormone shortage

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Drug shortages have made antibiotics, ADHD medicines and some diabetes drugs used for weight loss hard to get. For families whose children need human growth hormones, one shortage feels endless.

NPR's pharmaceuticals correspondent Sydney Lupkin reports on the shortage of a drug called Norditropin.

This segment aired on May 17, 2023.

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