Walgreens recently added secure medication disposal kiosks to 45 stores throughout Illinois, reports the Chicago Tribune.
Supply Chain
After experiencing statewide blood shortages this spring, Anchorage-based Blood Bank of Alaska experienced a surplus of donations. Now the bank is shipping extra blood to California, according to the Alaska Dispatch News.
Economic pressures to control the rising cost of medical devices has intensified efforts by providers to make better informed purchasing decisions and elicited demand for better "proof" of product superiority from manufacturers.
Every year, a secretive board of physicians and a pharmacist decides which drugs will be excluded from Express Scripts coverage for the upcoming year, according to the St. Louis Dispatch.
Indian drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma will open a facility to manufacture 50 million vaccine doses per year to prepare for its commercial launch of vaccine products in 2018, according to Business Standard.
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Germany-based Insightec and Israel-based Siemens Healthineers entered into a strategic agreement to develop compatibility between Insightec's Exablate Neuro device and Siemans' clinical MRI systems.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the Thermocool SmartTouch SF Catheter to treat patients with heart rhythm disorders.
Zimmer Biomet recently acquired CD Diagnostics, a Claymont, Del.-based diagnostics company that develops immunoassays and biomarker testing.
The owner of a New Orleans-based medical device company was sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding Medicare of more than $3.3 million.
The race is on to reduce operating expenses while improving hospital service levels, and in that race, supply chain executives have to balance financial and operational objectives in the name of innovation, according to Michelle Robbins, vice president of product…