Supply Chain

Palo Alto, Calif. could become the first city in the U.S. to deliver blood supplies via drones, according to WTOL.

AuroMedics Pharma issued a voluntary nationwide recall for one lot of its flexible bags containing the antibiotic linezolid for injection. The company issued the recall after the products were found to contain white particulate matter identified as mold, according to…

United Kingdom-based drugmaker Mallinckrodt will acquire Rockville, Md.-based Sucampo Pharmaceuticals for $18 per share. Including Sucampo's debt, the total transaction value is approximately $1.2 billion.

San Francisco-based Dignity Health eliminated plastic straws and stir sticks from cafeterias across its 39-hospital system after a California teenager requested the system consider its stock of single-use plastics, GreenBiz reports.

Here are the five latest drugs or medical devices approved by the FDA since Dec. 13.  

La Jolla Pharmaceutical won FDA approval Thursday for Giapreza, a drug that treats dangerously low blood pressure in adults with septic or other distributive shock.

A Type 2 diabetes drug, developed by Merck & Co. and Pfizer, won FDA approval Dec. 19., according to Reuters.

Here are six articles Becker's Hospital Review published in the last week, highlighting the FDA's crackdown on 'high-risk' alternative medicines, Teva Pharmaceuticals' layoff plan, and a first-of-its kind gene therapy to treat an inherited form of blindness, among other topics.

The FDA finalized a rule stating that triclosan and 23 other active ingredients are not "generally recognized as safe and effective for use in over-the-counter healthcare antiseptic products." The OTC products the rule refers to include healthcare personnel hand washes…

The French competition authority fined Johnson & Johnson 25 million euros ($29.62 million) for allegedly stalling generic copies of its pain medication Durogestic from entering the market, according to CNBC.