jay barbochi says she is not alone. it's more than 200 drugs on a shortage list right now put out by the food and drug administration. it's a combination of factors contributing to the crisis. >> which range from the availability of raw materials to recalls to business decisions made by pharmaceutical companies to inventory practices that may exist in other pharmacies and hospitals where there may be a sense of a drug shortage and supplies. >> reporter: the mounting problems have prompted president obama to order the fda to take action in three areas. broadened reporting of potential drug shortages, speedup application to change production of those drugs and look at how shortages are leading to i illegal price gouging. one drug being offered at $1,200 a dose. 9news contacted the maker of doxil as well as an industry group to ask what is being done about the shortages. the pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of mercury leased this statement. -- america released this statement. it's the cornerstone of our industry.