Drug shortages
The webpage offers resources to help during the formula shortage.
The action gives the HHS Secretary authority to allocate all ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula in response to the U.S. shortage.
The mental health bill includes AHA-supported legislation that would reauthorize and expand a program that addresses maternal depression.
In a letter today, AHA asked GE Healthcare to provide additional information to help member hospitals manage the current shortage of GE intraveneous contrast mediaproducts for computed tomography imaging.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday voted unanimously to advance the bills to the full committee.
A GE Healthcare facility that makes the contrast media in Shanghai, China, had to shut down temporarily due to a COVID-19 lockdown.
The Food and Drug Administration today recommended strategies for health care providers to conserve prefilled 0.9% sodium chloride intravenous lock/flush syringes.
Pending federal approval, Civica Rx, the nonprofit consortium of U.S. hospitals, plans to manufacture and distribute several generic insulins, continuing its mission to alleviate chronic shortages of inpatient drugs and reduce drug prices.
A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends actions to help prevent medical product shortages and ensure access to essential drugs and devices.
Intermountain Healthcare has agreed to sell its Intalere group purchasing organization (formerly Amerinet) to Vizient, a GPO that also provides data analytics and performance-improvement insights to health systems.