Alpharetta, Ga.-based MedAssets has renewed two of its major partnerships with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanante and Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y.
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Brentwood, Tenn.-based HealthTrust is now a supporting member of the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, a collaboration of healthcare organizations pushing the industry to become more environmentally sustainable, according to a HealthTrust news release.
The global ophthalmology drugs and devices market is expected to reach $52.6 billion by 2017, according to a report released by MarketsandMarkets.
The sex ratio in post-approval studies mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration varies greatly in certain clinical areas, even reaching an imbalance of nine females to every one male, according to a study published in the Journal of…
Hospitals are experiencing a shortage of intravenous fluid, specifically saline solution, due to an increased demand possibly spurred by the onset of the flu season.
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Morehead Memorial Hospital in Eden, N.C., and Novant Health in Winston-Salem, N.C., have signed a shared services agreement to reduce supply chain costs and share corporate resources, according to a News-Record report.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has prohibited Ranbaxy Laboratories in Toansa, India, from manufacturing and distributing active pharmaceutical ingredients for FDA-regulated drug products.
The clinical trials new drugs and devices must undergo for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hold the drugs to varying degrees of approval, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Baptist Health and Norton Healthcare, both based in Louisville, Ky., have entered a five-year joint purchasing agreement with Mundelein, Ill.-based Medline, according to a news release.
Purchased services agreements present an area of potential savings for operational budgets if hospitals have the tools to control and reprioritize their purchased services spending.