The FDA is alerting healthcare providers to not use saline and sterile water products made by Nurse Assist after the Texas-based company recalled more than 70 solutions distributed by companies including Cardinal Health and McKesson.  

Medline and Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health clinched a yearslong, exclusive partnership deal. 

A label issue for 1,905 catheter kits is prompting a recall as the device's maker, Teleflex, and its subsidiary Arrow International, report 16 incidents related to the mislabeling. 

B. Braun Medical, a Pennsylvania-based medical devicemaker, is recalling nearly 290,000 drug delivery products, according to a Nov. 3 post from the FDA. 

A southern Virginia factory, which is the only facility in the U.S. that is equipped to make medical-grade synthetic rubber for exam gloves, isn't actually making any at all.

Medline recently doubled the square footage of its facility in Redmond, Ore., that reprocesses medical devices slated for landfills. 

Olympus, a medical supply company based in Pennsylvania, warned customers that its High Flow Insufflation Unit may suddenly over-inflate air into a patient's body without a warning. One death and 10 serious injuries have been reported to the FDA.

Freeman Health System is adding two 24-foot-long box trailers equipped for mass casualties to its three-hospital system, The Joplin Globe Globe reported. 

Medtronic sent an alert concerning stolen video laryngoscopes, which are being illegally resold to providers. 

Cardinal Health is notifying customers of incompatibility between syringe pumps and more than 20 million of its Luer-Lock Tip Soft Pack syringes. 

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Medline opened another distribution center in late October as part of its $2 billion investment in healthcare supply resilience. 

The leading tactics to combat supply chain disruptions are confirming vendor-approved product alternatives and stockpiling, according to a Kaufman Hall report published Oct. 24. 

The CDC is urging clinicians to prioritize 100 milligram doses of a new respiratory syncytial virus drug for infants at highest risk of severe disease amid limited supply. 

Demand for the first FDA-approved respiratory syncytial virus drug for children is surpassing what the drugmaker expected, and the CDC has paused orders.

The FDA classified about 1,460 Hamilton Medical ventilators in a Class I recall, part of a voluntary correction, because electrolyte fluid might leak onto the device's control board. 

Medline penned a deal to be the primary supplier of lab equipment for St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, which is based in Savannah, Ga.

Cardinal Health, one of the largest medical device distributors in the U.S., plans to cut some operations and lay off 24 workers in Nebraska, according to WARN notices. 

Savannah, Ga.-based St. Joseph's/Candler Health System has tapped Medline as its primary laboratory supplier. 

The FDA sent a warning letter to Abiomed, Johnson & Johnson's heart device company, for marketing the Impella Connect app without premarket approval.