Pharmaceutical/Biotech

Discounts, Guarantees and the Search for 'Good' Genes: The Booming Fertility Business

November 3, 2017

When Julie Schlomer got the news that she was finally pregnant at the age of 43, her thoughts turned to the other mothers. There were three of them in all, complete strangers, but they shared an extraordinary bond made possible by 21st-century medicine and marketing: They were all carrying half-siblings.

Wal-Mart Is Putting Shelf-Scanning Robots in More Than 50 U.S. Stores

November 2, 2017

Fortune

Wal-Mart Stores is rolling out shelf-scanning robots in more than 50 U.S. stores to replenish inventory faster and save employees time when products run out.

Wildfires Scorched Marijuana Crops, Complicating Rollout of Legal Sales

October 30, 2017

The Washington Post

The deadly wildfires that ravaged communities and wineries in Northern California also severely damaged numerous marijuana farms, just before the state is expected to fully legalize the drug, in a disaster that could have far-reaching implications for a nascent industry.

How Big Pharma's Money, and Its Politicians, Feed the U.S. Opioid Crisis

October 26, 2017

The Guardian

Donald Trump was not wrong. Hours before his nominee for "drug czar" withdrew from consideration over his part in a law limiting the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to crack down on pharmaceutical distributors feeding the U.S.'s opioid epidemic, the president took a shot at the influence of drug companies over Congress.

Opinion: Driving the Clinically Integrated Healthcare Supply Chain

October 24, 2017

Paul Martyn, supply chain consultant, Forbes contributor

The undisputed Holy Grail in healthcare supply chain management practice is essentially everything related to its effective clinical integration. It's about getting clinical professionals and supply chain professionals on the same page and/or out of their own way - to streamline the delivery of patient benefit.

As Cancer Tears Through Africa, Drug Makers Draw Up a Battle Plan

October 18, 2017

The New York Times

In a remarkable initiative modeled on the campaign against AIDS in Africa, two major pharmaceutical companies, working with the American Cancer Society, will steeply discount the prices of cancer medicines in Africa.

End of the Road: Will Automation Put an End to the American Trucker?

October 18, 2017

The Guardian

Jeff Baxter's sunflower-yellow Kenworth truck shines as bright and almost as big as the sun. Four men clean the glistening cab in the hangar-like truck wash at Iowa 80, the world's largest truck stop.

Big Pharma Gets Boost As China Speeds Up New Drug Approvals

October 13, 2017

Industryweek

For decades, Chinese patients have struggled to gain access to cutting-edge medicines thanks to bureaucratic delays that have hamstrung drug development. Now a sweeping government overhaul of drug approvals is poised to change that.

Reinventing Supply Chain & Operations

October 12, 2017

Joseph Selle, IBM Executive in Charge of Cognitive Transformation and Operations

End of EU Sugar Quota Could Cut Prices Across Supply Chain

October 9, 2017

Supply Management

The EU's scrapping of long-held quotas on sugar could create a new era of lower prices, with implications reaching the whole the sugar supply chain.

Pharmaceutical/Biotech

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