Supply Chain

Kevin Tracey, MD, president of the Feinstein Institution for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., believes bioelectronic medicine could have widespread use within the next five to 10 years, according to The Wall Street Journal.

While the amount of new drug shortages has mostly decreased since 2011, there is still a large amount of ongoing drug shortages, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

While Truvada acts as an effective medication to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV, only a small percentage of gay and bisexual men who qualified for taking the daily pill actually did so in 2014, according to a study published…

State-based prescription drug monitoring programs prove helpful in reducing opioid-related deaths in the U.S., according to a study in the journal Health Affairs.

UPMC in Pittsburgh joined forces with Cambridge, Mass.-based IBM Watson Health to form Pensiamo, a new company aimed to helping hospitals improve their supply chains through a comprehensive source-to-pay offering and cognitive analytics.

The Food and Drug Administration halted Juno Therapeutics' clinical trial for an experimental cancer drug following the death of three patients, according to Reuters.

Here are the six latest medical devices or drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the Roche cobas HPV Test to detect human papilloma virus through the use of cervical cells collected for a Pap test and stored in SurePath Preservative Fluid.

Officials from the cities of Strasbourg and Lyon want France to be the new headquarters of the European Medicines Agency following Britain's vote to leave the European Union, according to Reuters.

St. Joseph Hospital, located in Bethpage, N.Y., unveiled a new cardiac CT scanner for the hospital's St. Francis Imaging Services last month.