we spoke withrow wan and her mom last week. take a listen to this. >> my concern this is obviously becoming a bigger problem. the list is getting longer every month of drugs that are, you know, in short supply and my concern is that with new children diagnosed all the time with lukemia, at what point is there going to be a change made so that we don't run into this problem where, oh, we have to release emergency supplies? jenna: around 280 drugs are in short supply according to our latest research. that number moves quite a bit by the way. for more on this we're joined live on the phone by fda commissioner margaret hamburg, highest ranking official in the fda we used the smaller story to talk about big issue about the drug shortages. what preventative issues are we taking so we don't have them? >> it is obviously a really important issue and one that is complicated. there is no one factor that underlies stems from a series of economic, legal, regulatory policy and clinical care issues but what the fda is trying to do is help su