Category: Supply Chain

The world’s only pharmaceutical company with an approved monkeypox vaccine said it can’t match the current demand and may move to outsourcing production, Bloomberg reported Aug. 17. 

Five years after the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act was signed into law, hearing aids will soon be available to people online and on store shelves regardless of a medical appointment, according to the FDA.

After the FDA signed off on the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to be split into fifths, the HHS will soon distribute nearly 450,000 doses, doubling the promised supply and moving up the expected timeline. 

Royal Philips is replacing its CEO Frans van Houten, who’s been in the role for more than a decade, with Roy Jakobs after the company recalled millions of ventilators in June 2021 that have since been tied to 124 deaths. 

Supply chain issues have impeded the nation’s access to Jynneos monkeypox vaccines for months, and health officials say the distribution has been “completely inefficient,” The New York Times reported Aug. 15. 

Johnson & Johnson will discontinue its talc-based baby powder after tens of thousands of lawsuits have slammed the New Brunswick, N.J.-based pharmaceutical company about the product allegedly containing cancer-causing ingredients.

The world’s only authorized monkeypox vaccine, Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos vaccine, is set to be split into fifths after the FDA cleared the strategy on Aug. 9 — a solution that could indicate the future for resolving emergency drug shortages, pharmacy a…

To find out what resilience means and what strategies supply chain hospital leaders should take, Becker’s spoke with William Weinstein, a McKinsey partner who’s one of the leaders who serves healthcare providers with external spend, and Drew Ungerman, …