Here are six articles Becker's Hospital Review published in the last week, highlighting the top healthcare supply chains and the FDA's efforts to mitigate the national saline bag shortage, among other topics.
1. Acorda terminates Parkinson's drug development after patient deaths
Acorda Therapeutics on Nov. 20 discontinued the development of its experimental Parkinson's disease drug, tozadenant, following several patient deaths.
2. 4 ways the FDA is addressing the saline bag shortage
Hospitals across the U.S. are facing critical shortages of IV fluids, particularly small saline solution bags, after Hurricane Maria disrupted manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico. Here are four ways FDA is working to mitigate these product shortages.
3. Gartner names top 25 healthcare supply chains for 2017
Gartner released is ninth annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 rankings Nov. 16.
4. Roche sues Pfizer to prevent a biosimilar from entering US market
Roche Holding AG sued Pfizer in a move to prevent a biosimilar version of its breast cancer drug Herceptin from entering the U.S. market.
5. Supply chain tip of the day: Give time back to clinicians
Time is the best currency available to clinicians, according to Ruben Taborda, senior director of supply chain customer solutions at Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems.
6. Outbreaks worsening national shortage of hep A vaccine, says CDC
The U.S. is experiencing a shortage of the hepatitis A vaccine amid ongoing outbreaks of the disease nationwide.