Category: Supply Chain

In the most serious type of recall, American Contract Systems has recalled 99,900 distributed COVID-19 test kits after the FDA deemed the facility “uncontrolled” because of untrained workers.

The shortage of resin, an ingredient medical manufacturers use in plastic products, isn’t affecting hospitals equally.

Since Florida’s health department won’t promote the authorized COVID-19 vaccine for infants and toddlers, and independent pharmacies and national retailers are left to pick up the slack, there’s spotty access across the state. Parents are fed up, The W…

With a high demand and limited supply of monkeypox vaccines, some states and cities are prioritizing doses for those who have had direct exposure to monkeypox, and others are offering only one shot of the required two-dose regimen. 

The nation’s stockpile of monkeypox vaccines racks up to nearly 7 million with the latest HHS purchase of Jynneos doses from Bavarian Nordic, the only manufacturer with an approved monkeypox vaccine.

In one of the largest known thefts of personal protective equipment, accounting for more than $470,000 worth of gloves, masks and gowns, a federal judge sentenced three men to 28 months in federal prison. 

Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System has partnered with drone delivery company Zipline to transport medical supplies to hospitals, labs and physician offices across the system.

Medical device manufacturer Medtronic is poised to invest $75 million to co-promote CathWorks’ artificial intelligence device that diagnoses coronary artery disease and detects its physiologic effects.