Health lobby leans in hard on domestic manufacturing

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The story: Policymakers are enthusiastic about supporting domestic manufacturing of drugs and medical devices, and health care companies want to make sure they get their share of that support. 

Distributors, manufacturers, group purchasing organizations and industry trade groups have all included domestic production of medical goods in their recent lobbying efforts.

In June, a group of companies from across the health care supply chain formed a new trade group called Securing America’s Medicines...

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Problematic vaccine plant still lacks approval after some doses cleared

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The news: A problematic Maryland vaccine plant making Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine still doesn’t have regulatory approvals, even after the Food and Drug Administration declared several batches from the plant were safe.

FDA on June 11 cleared two batches of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine produced at the plant, and cleared a third batch this week.

The FDA has cleared a total of 25 million Johnson & Johnson doses from the Maryland plant, according to The Wall Street Journal. Additional...

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