Supply Chain

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.

Amazon's annual sales represent about 15 percent of total U.S. consumer online sales, according to a company statement and the Department of Commerce. However, some analysts believe the Seattle-based retail giant handles up to 30 percent of all U.S. goods…

United Parcel Service aircraft maintenance workers started the voting process to authorize a strike on Friday after the employees reached a standstill with the carrier over wages and health benefits, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Los Angeles Times recently featured an opinion piece from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in which he encouraged Californians to vote for the California Drug Price Relief Act, or Proposition 61, on Election Day.

In a recent article, Cardinal Health discusses what pharmacies can do to improve their Star Ratings performance.

While generic drugs typically cost 80 percent less than brand name medications, biosimilar versions of costly biologic drugs fail to produce similar savings, according to NPR.