Supply Chain

The Food and Drug Administration Monday approved Merck's cancer drug Keytruda as an initial treatment for patients with lung cancer, reports Reuters.

Through contracting and other initiatives, many health systems have harvested much of the "low-hanging fruit" when it comes to driving costs out of the system. Yet, estimates indicate the healthcare industry could save at least $5 billion annually through more…

The Food and Drug Administration created a new webpage for individuals to report allegations of regulatory misconduct against medical device manufacturers or companies marketing devices.

Here is a list of the 10 most prescribed drugs in the U.S. for 2015, according to The Fiscal Times. The list — sorted by generic name, total prescriptions and indication — is based on data from IMS Health.

Baxter International, a Deerfield, Ill.-based company offering various renal and hospital products, reported sales of $2.6 billion in the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, representing a 3 percent increase year over year.

GlaxoSmithKline filed an application with the Food and Drug Administration Monday for its experimental shingles vaccine Shingrix, according to Bloomberg.

A critical blood shortage in the U.S. stems from logistics issues as much as from supply problems, according to WIRED, since no centralized database exists to track the availability and cost of blood products. Bloodbuy hopes to solve this issue.…

If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the election, his administration would repeal the medical device tax, said Former HHS secretary Tommy Thompson last week at the annual AdvaMed conference in Minneapolis.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Norcross, Ga.–based Immucor's PreciseType HEA test to screen blood donations for the sickle cell trait.

The Food and Drug Administration approved Basel, Switzerland-based Roche's cobasMPX test to be used with the cobas 6800 and 8800 systems, according to StreetInsider.