Medications
Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find
Past public ire over high drug prices has recently taken a back seat to a more insidious problem—no drugs at any price.
Jul 20, 2023
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News tagged with manufacturing facilities
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Public health researchers call for new measures to protect pharmaceutical supply chain
Shortages of many essential drugs amid the COVID-19 crisis reveal serious vulnerabilities in the systems for supplying and distributing pharmaceuticals in the United States, according to a new report led by researchers at ...
Feb 5, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How COVID-19 vaccines will get from the factory to your local pharmacy
Bahar Aliakbarian is an expert in supply chain management in pharmaceuticals and a professor at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University. Below, she describes the vaccine supply chains of Pfizer and Moderna, which ...
Dec 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Food poisoning cases linked to hard-boiled eggs sold in bulk
Pregnant women, people over the age of 65 and people with weakened immune systems should throw away store-bought hard-boiled eggs because of a food poisoning outbreak linked to a Georgia company, health officials said Thursday.
Dec 19, 2019
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Medications
US warns of cyber attacks on medical devices
US authorities on Thursday warned makers of medical devices and hospital networks to step up efforts to guard against potential cyber attacks.
Jun 13, 2013
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Pediatrics
US opens baby formula market to foreign suppliers
The Biden administration said Wednesday it is taking steps to ensure that international makers of baby formula can continue marketing their products in the United States, to avoid any infant formula shortage in the future.
Jul 7, 2022
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Vaccination
Moderna eyes three billion COVID vaccine doses in 2022
US pharmaceutical firm Moderna said Thursday it expects to increase global production of its cutting-edge COVID vaccine to up to three billion doses in 2022.
Apr 29, 2021
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Medical research
Revamped guidance 'cleans up' medical device instructions for use
Medical device manufacturers, regulators, and healthcare technology management (HTM) experts recently joined forces to solve a long-standing issue for medical device processing: confusing instructions for use (IFUs). These ...
Feb 11, 2021
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Vaccination
Novartis to help make Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine
Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis said Friday it had signed an initial agreement to help produce the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, as countries scramble to boost supplies.
Jan 29, 2021
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Medical research
Novel approach to making therapeutic proteins at point of care
A team of researchers led by UMBC have developed a novel approach to making therapeutic proteins available at the point of care.
Jul 10, 2018
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