Supply Chain

Bloodworks Northwest issued an urgent request for blood donors Monday after an Amtrak train derailed outside of Tacoma, Wash. onto a highway, according to The Olympian.

The medical device industry is calling on Congress to pass a delay of the ACA's medical device tax sooner rather than later, according to The Hill.

Drchrono — a provider of iPhone-based EMR, practice management and healthcare application programming interface platforms — partnered with the medical inventory management provider FlexScanMD, the companies announced Dec. 14.

Two months following the FDA's approval of Gilead Science's breakthrough lymphoma treatment, only five patients have received the expensive therapy, according to Bloomberg.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which is grappling with $35 billion of debt, announced plans Thursday to cut 14,000 jobs worldwide and consolidate six of its seven U.S. sites into one location, according to USA Today.

Drugs to treat "neglected tropical diseases," like many intestinal parasites, are extraordinarily expensive in the U.S. compared to other places in the world, according to a report from NPR.

The FDA launched a new website Wednesday aimed at improving access to timely information about bacteria and fungi susceptibility to drugs, to help healthcare professionals make appropriate choices when prescribing antibiotics and antifungal drugs.

Here are six articles Becker's Hospital Review published in the last week, featuring 10 recent drug company layoffs and the American Hospital Association's call for stronger medical device security, among other topics.

The FDA approved Pfizer's biosimilar Ixifi on Wednesday.

The FDA plans to publish a draft guidance in early 2018 clarifying what degree of "acceptable uncertainty" is allowable when evaluating medical devices during premarket review, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, wrote in an agency blog post Dec. 11.