Find out which manufacturers are shipping your medication.
We check the FDA drug shortage database every day, so you can ask your pharmacy for a specific manufacturer and NDC instead of calling around blind.
Where it is worst
Supply by therapeutic category
Every tile is a way in. If your medication is in one of these, its page is two clicks from here.
Where supply stands today
761 of the 1,542 manufacturer listings on the pages we publish report shipping today
A medication appears in this database because at least one manufacturer told the FDA it had a supply problem — not because the medication has run out everywhere. The split below is why it is worth asking your pharmacy for a particular manufacturer by name, rather than asking whether they have your prescription.
Why 1,542 and not the 1,623 we hold: the remaining 81 are each the only listing their product has, which does not earn a page under the rule below. They are counted nowhere on this board and searchable by package code anyway.
Across the whole feed 447 listings carry no availability at all — and that grey band is not missing data. 444 of them are products a manufacturer has told the FDA it intends to discontinue and 2 are listings the FDA has already marked resolved, which leaves a single listing whose wording our classifier will not guess at. Grey usually means something more permanent than a delay, which is why it is not shown in red. The full breakdown, with that wording quoted →
Most manufacturers shipping
The products with the largest number of manufacturers currently reporting they are shipping. Any of these names is worth asking for by name.
Largest share reporting unavailable
Ranked by the share of listings reporting unavailable, counting only listings that reported a status at all.
Three ways to use this
Two of them cost nothing and need no email
Nothing here is gated. The checklist is the one to take if you are about to make the call, and it is worth reading before you look anything up — the question that works most often is not the obvious one.
Look up your medication
Every manufacturer reporting on your exact strength, its package code, the status it reported, and when the FDA last touched the record. 151 products, 112 strength pages.
Browse the indexTake the call checklist
Ten questions in the order worth asking them, written to be used standing at a counter. It also says when to stop calling pharmacies and call the prescriber instead.
Read the checklistWatch a strength
One email on any day a manufacturer’s status for that strength moves — and a short note on quiet days, so a silent inbox means the watch stopped rather than that nothing happened.
Set up a watchWhat this is not
Not your pharmacy’s shelf
A manufacturer shipping nationally says nothing about whether your store has it. There is no lawful public feed of pharmacy inventory, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing.
Not medical advice
This is a mirror of a federal dataset with the dates and sources shown. Every decision about what you take belongs to you and your prescriber.
Not a guarantee, and never live
Availability changes without warning, in both directions. We check once a day, so the worst case is 24 hours out of date — we would rather say that than imply real time.
The shape of the problem
When the shortages we are still tracking began
Two more ways to read the feed
A shortage is rarely a short event
Mostly things you never see on a shelf
Feed activity
The FDA restamped 1,041 of these 1,623 listings in the last 30 days
A restamp is not a status change. 917 of the listings we hold carry the FDA’s own label “Reverified”, meaning a manufacturer re-confirmed the state it had already reported. Only a comparison between two days can say a status actually moved, which is what we run every morning and record below.
One bar per day. The FDA works in batches rather than continuously — 9 of the last 30 days carry no update at all, and the busiest day alone accounts for 247. The chart runs flat at the right-hand end because the feed’s own last update was 25 Aug, not because we stopped checking.
Changes we have recorded
Status moves our own daily comparison caught, dated by the day we saw them rather than the day the FDA stamped them.
How this is built, and where it is wrong
Five steps run once a day: fetch the FDA feed, reduce it to 1,623 canonical rows, hash it, compare it against yesterday, and classify what moved. The method page carries the diagram, the counts at each step, and the limitations we know about — including the ones we cannot fix.
Questions
Does “available” mean my pharmacy has it?
No. Available means a manufacturer has told the FDA it is shipping that product nationally. Your pharmacy orders from a wholesaler, which may be out, on allocation, or simply may not stock that manufacturer. Always confirm with your pharmacist.
What is an NDC and why does it matter?
The National Drug Code identifies one product from one manufacturer in one package size. Two tablets with the same name and strength from different manufacturers have different NDCs. Naming the code removes any ambiguity about which product you are asking for.
Does the FDA ever mark a shortage “resolved”?
Rarely. 2 of the 1,623 listings we hold today carry the status “Resolved”, and we show that word when the FDA uses it. But it is not how a shortage usually ends: far more often the listing simply disappears from the database between one day's copy and the next, and we report that as no longer listed by FDA — which is exactly what we observed and no more. We never call a shortage over on our own judgement.
How current is this data?
We fetch the entire FDA shortage database once a day and compare it to the previous copy. The feed itself updates roughly every business day. The maximum age of anything shown here is 24 hours from our last check, and the check date is printed on every page.
Can you see what my local pharmacy has on the shelf?
No, and nobody can do so from public data. There is no lawful public feed of pharmacy shelf inventory. Everything here is national manufacturer reporting. This is the single biggest limitation of the site and we would rather say it plainly than imply otherwise.
What should I do when a pharmacy cannot fill my prescription?
Ask whether they can order a specific manufacturer's product, and give them the code. If they cannot, ask whether a different strength that adds up to the same dose is available, then contact your prescriber, since that substitution needs a new prescription and is their call.
Why can't my prescription be transferred to another pharmacy?
For Schedule II medications, most states do not permit transferring an unfilled prescription between pharmacies. In practice that means a new prescription sent to the new pharmacy, which is why knowing where to call before you move the script saves time.
How do you decide something changed?
We compare each day's full copy of the database against the previous one, treating every listing as a fact rather than looking it up by code. 48 package codes in today's feed appear on more than one listing, so a comparison keyed on codes alone would invent changes that never happened.
What do the status labels mean?
They are the manufacturer's own words, normalised into four buckets: available, limited, unavailable, and unknown. Unknown covers 447 listings today — 444 of them products being discontinued, which the FDA stops reporting availability for — plus any free-text note we will not guess at. Unknown never triggers an alert.
Is this medical advice?
No. This is a mirror of a public federal dataset with the dates and sources shown. Nothing here is a recommendation about your treatment. Never change how you take a medication without talking to your prescriber or pharmacist.
All of these on one page → Each product page answers four more, generated from that product’s own record.
Built from the FDA drug shortage database, fetched 2026-08-26; the feed’s own last update was 2026-08-25. Snapshot 021d4dfd5d742d95. You can check us against the FDA source, and read what we get wrong.