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Supply Chain

Abiomed, also now known as Johnson & Johnson MedTech, issued a recall for its Impella RP with SmartAssist and Impella RP Flex with SmartAssist heart pumps due to safety concerns. 

Baxter's North Cove manufacturing facility in Marion, N.C., has returned to pre-hurricane production levels following extensive flooding from Hurricane Helene, which halted operations and triggered a nationwide IV-fluid shortage. 

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Here are eight new drug shortages and discontinuations, according to drug supply databases from the FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 

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