Topic: supply chain

There are a lot of intermediate players in today’s pharma supply chain. But expect that to change, Merck CEO Ken Frazier said Wednesday.

A blockchain-based drug and vaccine traceability system, which the developer says records all data in the vaccine supply chain, will debut in Shanghai.

The FDA issued a warning letter to Labocont Industrial following an inspection last year and cited the company for failing to make fixes.

CDMO Almac, which has been bulking up its capacity and services, has opened a new cold storage facility at its Northern Ireland headquarters campus.

China has closed thousands of manufacturing plants as it tries to reduce air pollution, and one pharma company says it has created supply problems.

The FDA is concerned that disruption of drug manufacturing in Puerto Rico could lead to critical shortages of some medicines.

As Puerto Rico struggles in the wake of Hurricane Maria last week, the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry on the island is effectively shut down.

Leerink Partners says Amazon is already in talks with PBMs as it eyes the drug business, posing a larger threat to pharma than some might realize.

According to research published by the New England Journal of Medicine and reported by the Wall Street Journal, shortages of prescription drug supplies in the U.S. in recent years resulted in price increases for some drugs.

Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky played down the potential fallout from U.S. politics on his company—and the rest of pharma, for that matter.