Category: Supply Chain

Despite federal efforts to boost infant formula production, supply rates in five states dropped below 60 percent and the nationwide rate recently dipped 7 percentage points, Bloomberg reported July 8. 

With the impending summer dip in donors, blood centers across the U.S. face a tall hurdle during a national blood shortage. 

With the World Health Organization scrambling to reevaluate the outbreak and cases racking up in the U.S., the HHS ordered 144,000 monkeypox vaccines and said it plans to deploy the doses by July 11. 

The global shortage of iodinated contrast dye, which has forced hospitals to postpone CT scans and other imaging procedures since May, will last until the end of September, the American Hospital Association’s senior director of supply chain told Becker…

In response to one factory’s shutdown and the resulting monthslong baby formula shortage, the FDA set its sights to import more infant formula from other countries with an updated guidance July 6. 

Here are six drug and device recalls that have been reported to the FDA since mid-June:

Medical manufacturers warn the rising cost of raw materials such as plastic can hinder hospital supply, Bloomberg reported July 5. 

Bavarian Nordic is the nation’s main supplier for the only FDA-approved monkeypox vaccine, Jynneos, but the company isn’t running at full capacity, The New York Times reported July 1.

GE Healthcare has recalled 4,222 Carescape R860 ventilator backup batteries in a class 1 recall, the most serious type, after discovering replacement batteries were unexpectedly running out of juice.