Many pharma shipments—especially those requiring time-sensitive, temperature-controlled shipping, use air cargo, both domestically and internationally. And while the global air-cargo business has mostly been operating in a customary fashion (except for restrictions on airport receiving offices and some locations, in […]
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Pharma distributors have learned, through painful experience, how to deal with natural disasters that shut down healthcare resources across a region; Covid-19, obviously, is different. “We are accustomed to moving assets from other regions to the impacted one to respond […]
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic is changing priorities across a wide swath of healthcare issues, including the Drug Enforcement Administration. DEA has considerable responsibilities across a range of controlled substances—including numerous Schedule II and III psychoactive drugs. It also controls the import […]
Read MoreA group with the Dept. of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued guidance on March 19 for who, in the US economy, is an “essential critical infrastructure worker” and should therefore continue reporting to work while […]
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The Covid-19 crisis continues to be fast-moving and evolving; many statements or actions taken on one day are superseded by other developments on the next. One (small) consolation is that the experience of China, both the origin of the crisis […]
Read MoreThe surge of commercial activity around marijuana and its cannabinoid derivatives (including FDA-regulated formulations) is well documented; the field has already gone through one boom-and-bust cycle among investors. Meanwhile, the commercial supply chain (at least for medical dispensing) is still […]
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It’s tough to hold a grand opening ceremony in the aftermath of a natural disaster, but CSafe Global has a special reason for doing so: its RKN and RAP air-cargo containers are being used to move temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals into and […]
Read MoreOwens & Minor, which operates globally as a health products distributor, is scaling down its global operations by agreeing to sell Movianto for an undisclosed price. O&M had acquired the business in 2012—and had made significant investments in Europe since […]
Read MorePeople involved in air cargo talk of “end of runway” activities—i.e., things done just before the aircraft is loaded up and takes off—but there are few “end of runway” pharmacies. The exception might be Medvantx, which operates a pharmacy within […]
Read MoreAs we cross the threshold into a new decade in 2020, it’s a time to take stock of the significant changes that transformed the pharmaceutical cold chain industry during the past decade. The years from 2010 through 2019 indelibly altered […]
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