Supply Chain
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Two legislators in charge of influential House committees are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to rapidly onshore medical supply manufacturing and end its dependence on China, CNN first reported Nov. 8.
Cardinal Health now sells the nation's first surgical gown with chest pockets designed to hold a surgical instrument in operating rooms, which the medical supply company invented with physicians at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.
The FDA is alerting healthcare providers to not use saline and sterile water products made by Nurse Assist after the Texas-based company recalled more than 70 solutions distributed by companies including Cardinal Health and McKesson.
Medline and Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health clinched a yearslong, exclusive partnership deal.
A label issue for 1,905 catheter kits is prompting a recall as the device's maker, Teleflex, and its subsidiary Arrow International, report 16 incidents related to the mislabeling.
B. Braun Medical, a Pennsylvania-based medical devicemaker, is recalling nearly 290,000 drug delivery products, according to a Nov. 3 post from the FDA.
A southern Virginia factory, which is the only facility in the U.S. that is equipped to make medical-grade synthetic rubber for exam gloves, isn't actually making any at all.
Medline recently doubled the square footage of its facility in Redmond, Ore., that reprocesses medical devices slated for landfills.
Olympus, a medical supply company based in Pennsylvania, warned customers that its High Flow Insufflation Unit may suddenly over-inflate air into a patient's body without a warning. One death and 10 serious injuries have been reported to the FDA.
Freeman Health System is adding two 24-foot-long box trailers equipped for mass casualties to its three-hospital system, The Joplin Globe Globe reported.