`ema_shortages`

Pack: ema-medicines · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ema-medicines/mcp

European Medicines Agency register of reported and ongoing medicine shortages in the EU. Returns the medicine, INN/active substance, shortage status (ongoing/resolved/discontinued), pharmaceutical forms and strengths affected, whether alternatives are available, start-of-shortage date and expected resolution. The EU counterpart of the FDA drug shortages database. Answers “which EU medicines are currently in shortage”, “is there a shortage of X in Europe”, “when will the semaglutide shortage resolve in the EU”.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	no	Free text: medicine name, INN/active substance, or therapeutic area.
`status`	string	no	Filter on shortage status, e.g. “ongoing”, “resolved”, “discontinued”. Substring match.
`since`	string	no	Earliest start-of-shortage date. YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM or YYYY.
`limit`	number	no	Max records, default 50, max 200.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "albendazole"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ema-medicines/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ema_shortages","arguments":{"query":"albendazole"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('ema_shortages', {
  "query": "albendazole"
});

More examples

{
  "status": "ongoing",
  "limit": 5
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ema-medicines": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ema-medicines/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

ema_shortages