German pharmaceutical company Bayer has agreed to acquire Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based Merck & Co.'s OTC consumer care business for $14.2 billion.
Supply Chain
The Healthcare Supply Chain Association of America has released an Avalere Health report on the role of group purchasing organizations in managing and alleviating drug shortages in the United States.
Health IT and medical device inventory management solutions vendor Champion Medical Technologies has appointed John W. Strong to its board of directors and has named Alan D. Weinstein as a strategic advisor.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's report on the increase of device recalls in the past decade has resounded with healthcare industry professionals across the board.
HealthTrust Purchasing Group and Charlotte, N.C.-based Compumedics have entered a three-year preferred vendor contract.
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To help alleviate the nationwide saline solution shortage, Deerfield, Ill.-based Baxter Healthcare Corp., will temporarily distribute saline imported from its Spain manufacturing facility.
Hospital supply chain and materials managers work to ensure proper equipment, devices, pharmaceuticals and other pertinent items are where they need to be, when they need to be there. Responsible for the second largest cost in a hospital's operating budget,…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule to reclassify surgical mesh for transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse as a Class III "high-risk device." The mesh is currently classified as a Class II device, labeled as…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Zykadia (ceritinib) for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer four months ahead of schedule.
The Drug Quality and Security Act, signed into law in November 2013 by President Barack Obama, is designed to ensure the safety of the pharmaceutical supply chain.