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Pfizer wins FDA nod to store COVID vaccine at normal freezer temps

February 25, 2021 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

The FDA announced today that it is allowing undiluted, frozen vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be transported and stored for up to two weeks at conventional temperatures commonly found in pharmaceutical freezers. The decision should allow for wider distribution of the vaccine to sites that do not have ultra-low temperature freezers. Get the […]

Filed Under: Distribution, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: BioNTech, coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccine, FDA, Pfizer

7 takeaways from Biden’s ‘full-scale, wartime’ plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic

January 22, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

President Joe Biden kept to his word to announce plans to “establish clear federal leadership” to tackle the coronavirus pandemic on his first full day in office. The White House issued a 200-page document on Wednesday, detailing “full-scale, wartime” plans to harness the nation’s manufacturing and distribution capabilities to boost vaccine production, end shortages of […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Distribution, Featured, Lab Instruments & Supplies, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Joe Biden, PPE

Biden’s COVID-19 response will make manufacturers busy

January 21, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Manufacturers of vaccine supplies and personal protective equipment can expect more work as the new Biden administration rolls out its plans to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In one of his first official acts as president, Joe Biden announced a plan to “fully use” the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of testing supplies, masks, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Distribution, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Medical Device Manufacturers Assn. (MDMA) Tagged With: 3m, AdvaMed, BD, becton dickinson, International Safety Equipment Association, Medical Device Manufacturers Association, Medline Industries Inc., PPE

Smith+Nephew sees Movemedical automating inventory for its sales people

January 12, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Smith+Nephew (NYSE:SNN) announced today that it has successfully introduced a new field sales operations and inventory automation system in the U.S. in partnership with Movemedical. The new system is meant to help field sales reps better manage their daily inventory operations — and better serve surgeons’ needs —  boosting automation and transparency. Real-time data will […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Distribution, Orthopedics Tagged With: Movemedical, Smith+Nephew

HHS to supply vulnerable populations with 30M more Abbott rapid antigen tests

December 18, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it will purchase an additional 30 million Abbott (NYSE:ABT) BinaxNOW tests for a variety of groups vulnerable to COVID-19. Recipients will include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home healthcare, hospice organizations, historically black colleges and universities, Native American tribes and other vulnerable groups, the agency announced. The […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Distribution, Featured Tagged With: Abbott, coronavirus, COVID-19, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

PPE makers want revamp of pandemic planning and supply distribution

December 10, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Personal protective equipment manufacturers are asking the federal government to beef up its planning for and management of future pandemics to avoid the shortages that have endangered healthcare workers during COVID-19. Representatives of the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), which includes the major manufacturers of N95 masks, told reporters today that they plan to ask the federal […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Distribution, Featured, Hospital Care, Respiratory Tagged With: 3m, coronavirus, COVID-19, DuPont, International Safety Equipment Association, Moldex, personal protective equipment

U.S. plans to ship 6.4M COVID-19 vaccine doses to states in mid-December

November 25, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

About 6.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and its partner BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX) will ship to U.S. states in mid-December, as long as the vaccine soon receives an FDA EUA. There are also plans to quickly distribute vaccine from rival COVID-19 vaccine developer Moderna (NSDQ:MRNA), which could soon apply for an EUA, officials at the federal […]

Filed Under: Distribution, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer

Poll: Nearly half of medtech women executives’ companies ready for pandemic’s second wave

November 16, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Nearly half of medtech executives polled in a recent survey said their companies are prepared for the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping the globe. Forty-eight percent of the 71 MedExecWomen Fall Forum attendees who responded to the question reported their companies’ readiness hinged on scalable remote commercial capabilities, a bolstered supply chain […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Distribution, Featured Tagged With: Boston Consulting Group, Boston Scientific, coronavirus, COVID-19, MedExec, MedExecWomen, Medtronic

J&J exec denies pressure to rush COVID-19 vaccine

October 8, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:JNJ) chief scientific officer said today that the first doses of his company’s COVID-19 vaccine could be available for frontline healthcare workers in January or February, but added the company isn’t rushing it. If granted an emergency use authorization by the FDA, that’s the earliest Dr. Paul Stoffels said the single-dose vaccine developed […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Distribution, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceutical, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, FDA, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, vaccines

J&J exec denies pressure to rush COVID-19 vaccine

October 7, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:JNJ) chief scientific officer said today that the first doses of his company’s COVID-19 vaccine could be available for frontline healthcare workers in January or February, but added the company isn’t rushing it. If granted an emergency use authorization by the FDA, that’s the earliest Dr. Paul Stoffels said the single-dose vaccine developed […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Distribution, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, FDA, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson

How much could Operation Warp Speed change pharma, medtech distribution?

October 7, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

A top U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official used an appearance today at a virtual medtech conference to repeat the U.S. government’s astounding goal for its Operation Warp Speed program: start delivering 300 million doses of a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021. The project could revolutionize not only how pharmaceuticals are […]

Filed Under: Distribution, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: AdvaMed, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), McKesson, Operation Warp Speed

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