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IRT’s Critical Role in the Clinical Supply Chain

Interactive response technology (IRT), also referred to as randomization and trial supply management (RTSM), plays a central role in managing the drug supply during a randomized clinical trial.

Getting the COVID-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries

As of mid-December, 61.4% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate that disease experts say is inadequate to eradicate the virus. But it’s far better than the shockingly low numbers of some developing countries, where vaccination rates are still in the single digits.

Staff members load COVID-19 vaccine equipment onto a boat during a vaccine drive on the remote Philippine island of San Salvador. Photo: Bloomberg.

Nightmare Vaccine Logistics Are Prolonging the Global Pandemic

Lack of supply was the biggest threat initially to the vaccination programs of developing nations. Now, it’s logistics.

A worker moves a case into a temperature-controlled vaccine shipping container. Photo: Bloomberg.

Covid Test Makers Struggle to Cope With Whiplash From Omicron

As the omicron variant sends U.S. Covid case numbers soaring to new records and drugstores and walk-in clinics clamor for test kits, suppliers have been struggling with their own mounting problems.

A health care worker gathers COVID-19 tests. Photo: Bloomberg.

BioNTech, Moderna, J&J Explore Omicron Versions of Shots

BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson are working to adapt their COVID-19 vaccines to address the omicron variant, with the German partner of Pfizer Inc. saying it could have a new version ready within 100 days if necessary.

Johnson & Johnson doses are prepared at a COVID-19 vaccination site. Photo: Bloomberg.

The Logistics-Tech Company Keeping Pfizer's Vaccine Unimaginably Cold

Controlant, a provider of innovative technology for monitoring the distribution of temperature-sensitive vaccines and other items in the cold chain, takes on COVID-19.

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit in a freezer. Photo: Bloomberg.

A Public-Private Logistics Partnership Streamlines Delivery of HIV Medicine

Management Sciences for Health, with funding from USAID and in cooperation with multiple private and public entities in Ukraine, launches a successful pilot to improve that country’s healthcare delivery supply chain.

Bottles of Ziagen, an HIV oral liquid medication, move down the packaging line. Photo: Bloomberg.

Moderna Finds That Creating a Covid Vaccine Was the Easy Part

More than 10 months after U.S. regulators first authorized its potent shot, Moderna is finding that inventing a COVID-19 vaccine was actually a relatively straightforward task compared with what would come next: ramping up vial-filling operations on multiple continents and distributing the vaccine to countries around the world in the middle of a devastating pandemic.

A vial of Moderna Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Bloomberg.

Prescription Delivery Options Are Increasing. Is Your Pharmacy Prepared?

Building out the logistics for prescription delivery comes with considerable hurdles.

Teva Recalls U.S.-Made Drugs Following Contamination Fears

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has paused drug production at its Irvine, California, facility and is reviewing the concerns raised by the FDA.

Glass pharmaceutical vials on the production line. Photo: Bloomberg.

Vaccine Mandates Hit Amid Historic Health-Care Staff Shortage

What some are calling the worst U.S. health-care labor crisis in memory is sharpening concerns about attrition from resistance to vaccine mandates.

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Bloomberg.

Supply Chain Innovator of the Year Is Global Health Nonprofit MSH

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and SupplyChainBrain presented their annual Supply Chain Innovation Award on Wednesday to global health care nonprofit Management Sciences for Health’s (MSH) for streamlining distribution of HIV and TB medicines to vulnerable communities in Ukraine.

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