Marken (London; US HQ in New York) has opened a purpose-built, GMP-compliant facility in Argentina to handle the 1,200 clinical trials it is currently providing services for in Latin America, and as a platform for future growth in the region; […]

The infamous Medicare Part D “donut hole,” wherein Medicare patients were required to cover all of the costs of prescription drugs until annual payments reached a certain level, was addressed by the 2010 Affordable Care Act: pharma manufacturers are obliged […]

This story involves medical devices (breast implants) and not drugs, and the details are still coming together even as a near-panic is arising in Europe over implants that contained non-medical-grade silicone from a now bankrupt company, Poly Implant Prothese, at […]

Having been publicly prodded by Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), and with another Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing set for Dec. 15, HHS came through with its proposed rules on the Physicians Payments Sunshine Act, which […]

Following Congressional hearings in the fall, and an executive order from the White House on Oct. 31 (Pharmaceutical Commerce, Nov/Dec, p. 1), FDA and the drug-manufacturing community are more sensitized to the problem—but no immediate resolution is in sight. In […]

Cold Chain Technologies (Holliston, MA) has expanded a line of packages, GTS, to include case or package dimensions as small as 7x5x4 in., and as large as 48x40x48 in. (a full pallet), with pre-qualified thermal protection between 5 and 30°C, […]

After pharma wholesalers began making inventory and sales data available to manufacturers in the mid-2000s, new capabilities to track sales, shipments and inventory data deeper in the supply chain became possible. But soon a new problem cropped up: “blinded” data […]

Every three months or so, UPS Healthcare Logistics, a dedicated unit of Big Brown for pharma, med devices and other healthcare products, announces the opening of a new distribution center or transportation hub; now it is growing by acquisition as […]

Gartner’s 2011 Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 shows considerable movement from last year’s, with Cardinal Health replacing Owens & Minor as the top billing. “Cardinal made significant gains in the opinion component of the poll, a reflection of the credibility […]