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The FDA is asking Congress to fund new programs focused on regulating the health care supply chain and mitigating shortages.

Legislators think they can improve the health care supply chain Lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills (Photo: Mark Thomas) The promise: Over the last several months, lawmakers from both parties have introduced more than a dozen bills to improve the health care supply chain following failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Few have made much progress, but several have bipartisan support.  Many of the bills propose similar solutions such as studies on the causes of supply chain issues and support for domestic manufacturing.  At a Senate committee hearing last week, a group of exper...

Logistics is the name of the game when it comes to getting health care supplies to patients in disaster zones or places experiencing disease outbreaks.

US will share vaccines and raw materials with other countries Credit: Alok Uniyal This is an excerpt from the April 27, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter.  A White House spokesperson didn’t specify which countries would receive the vaccine. In addition, the U.S. will share raw materials for vaccine manufacturing, therapeutics, rapid test kits, ventilators and personal protective equipment with India, which is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases. “Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals were strained early in ...

Medically Necessary: Europe hopes mRNA vaccines will speed rollout after delays Credit: Shutterstock This is an excerpt from the April 20, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter.  Europe hopes mRNA vaccines will speed rollout after delays New strategy: The European Union is turning to Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine to speed up the vaccine rollout after doses from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson were delayed by health concerns and production problems, according to reporting from The New York Times. Pfizer will deliver 50 million doses to the EU a few mon...