Supply Chain

The following drug companies made headlines this past week.

Northfield, Ill.-based Medline on July 5 entered a distribution agreement with Hayward, Calif.-based Applied Silver.

Foley, Ala.-based drug compounding company Medistat RX must cease all manufacturing and distribution operations following a complaint filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration.

The Association for Accessible Medicines, a U.S. trade group representing generic drug companies, on July 6 filed a lawsuit to block a new state law allowing the Maryland attorney general to sue generic drugmakers for price hikes, reports Reuters.

Here are the three latest drugs or medical devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration this week.

Drug and devicemakers shelled out more than $8 billion in payments to physicians and teaching hospitals last year, according to CMS' Open Payments data.

When hospitals purchase prepackaged supplies, they are not only paying the cost of the supplies included in each pack, but also for the packaging materials and assembly fees, according to Tom Fox, a managing director at healthcare consulting firm Novia…

Individuals who donate blood at Somerville, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset this summer will receive a free round of golf from the Somerset County Parks Commission.

Here are six articles published by Becker's Hospital Review this week, highlighting a critical blood shortage plaguing the American Red Cross and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, United Postal Service's plan to use golf carts for deliveries and four upcoming regulatory…

The Food and Drug Administration on July 5 approved Edwards Lifesciences Corp.'s Inspiris Resilia aortic valve.