Supply Chain

While many drug investors are growing nervous about the upcoming election, the most recent earnings season conjures up new concerns for the pharmaceutical industry in regard to the slowdown in sales of key blockbuster drugs, reported The Wall Street Journal.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions aren’t new. Nor is the concept of supply chain and inventory analytics a novelty.

Valeant Pharmaceticals International is looking to sell its stomach drug unit, Salix Pharmaceuticals, to pay off company debt, reports Reuters.

An Alabama pipeline supplying about one-third of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel used in the East Coast caught fire and exploded Monday after maintenance workers struck one of the lines with an excavating machine, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved New York City-based Tyto Care's digital stethoscope.

While EpiPen prescriptions are still increasing, Mylan's share of the epinephrine auto-injector market fell for the first time in three years, according to research from athenahealth.

Shoppers entering Wal-Mart stores in Bentonville, Ark. — also the location of the retail giant's headquarters — are greeted by a large tower near the store entrance.

Actinium Pharmaceuticals, a New York City-based biopharmaceutical company, named Bernie Cunningham, PhD, executive director of clinical supply chain and logistics, as well as CMS project management.

A number of drugmakers, wholesale distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers saw their stocks slump on Friday after several drug companies indicated they will not raise prices as sharply as in past years, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Just as a supply chain team should monitor medical supplies traveling throughout the hospital, so too should clinicians maintain a keen eye on antimicrobial medication orders.