Supply Chain

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.

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…

Imagine reducing one of your large inbound freight bills from $1,764 to $307* without having to change a thing about the shipment except how it’s being managed.

Forget heroin and fentanyl. Drug enforcement officers have a new opioid on their radar — an elephant tranquilizer that's 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.

Predicted healthcare costs released prior to a drug's launch often overestimate actual drug sales, according to a recent study conducted by the Partnership for Health Analytics Research.