Supply Chain

Cantrell Drug Co., a Little Rock, Ark.-based specialty pharmaceutical organization, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday.

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A proposed provision in a new defense policy bill would allow the U.S. Department of Defense to approve medical devices and drugs, a power FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, argues his agency should retain, reports The Hill.

Drug price legislation was defeated in Ohio Tuesday, according to STAT.

Stericycle ExpertSolutions on Tuesday released its report on U.S. product recalls for the third quarter of 2017.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to exempt select direct-to-consumer genetic testing manufacturers from premarket review, agency commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, wrote in a Nov. 6 statement.

Surescripts, a health information network focused on e-prescriptions, joined forces with five EHR vendors and two pharmacy benefit managers to improve prescription price transparency, the company announced Nov. 7.

More than 2,300 employees at Eli Lilly's U.S. operations accepted voluntary buyouts, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.

The Food and Drug Administration granted expanded approvals for two of Roche's cancer drugs this week.

A new defense policy bill would grant the U.S. Department of Defense power to approve drugs and medical devices for use in the military, reports Politico.