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Watch logistics in action for healthcare
UPS delivers life saving medicines and devices with precision, speed, flexibility and in full compliance. Go inside one of UPS’s dedicated healthcare distribution centers to see the new logistics in action.
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How UPS keeps critical shipments cool
Healthcare requires special care—the new logistics. UPS product manager Mark Davis explains how UPS cold chain transportation delivers temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments safely and reliably.
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UPS 2010 pain in the chain
What are the primary business and logistical challenges facing the healthcare industry? How can companies overcome them? UPS posed these and other questions to 150 of today’s top healthcare supply chain executives. Find out what they discovered.
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How UPS delivers more medication with less pain
The storing and transporting of critical, temperature-sensitive medications requires special care—like the kind the new logistics can deliver. Learn how UPS and Endo Pharmaceuticals partner to deliver more medication without all the headaches.
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Pharmaceutical packaging's role rockets into outer space
A recently published article indicates that as the duration of NASA shuttle missions lengthens, pharmaceutical packaging will gain importance in astronaut safety and health. "The use of pharmaceuticals during space shuttle missions is common with crews taking more than 500 individual doses of 31 different medications during the first 33 flights." That's according to a research article, "Evaluation of Physical and Chemical Changes in Pharmaceuticals Flown on Space Missions," co-authored by Brian Du, Vernie R. Daniels, Zalman Vaksman, Jason L. Boyd, Camille Crady, and Lakshmi Putcha. Factors such as radiation, excessive vibration, microgravity, and a carbon dioxide-rich environment can all influence stability of pharmaceutical products in space.
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Package testing;
Distribution;
Bottles;
Research article
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Patented label system earns award for AccuDial
Children's AccuDial®, a product line of Palm Beach Gardens, FL-based AccuDial Pharmaceutical, Inc., is a 2011 Edison Awards winner. Children's AccuDial won gold in the Consumer Packaged Goods category, one of 12 categories honored by the Edison Awards. Children's AccuDial features a two-part, patented label system. As the consumer rotates the top label to display the child's weight, dosing information is revealed from the inner label. A caregiver then pours the liquid into the calibrated dosing device (included in the medicine package) to the exact measurement, and the child receives the correct dose of medication.
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AccuDial;
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America on track to spend 100% of its GDP on health care by 2065?
Theoretically, that could be the case, according to an Economist article, which says we currently spend 16% of the country's GDP on health care. The article, "Patient, heal thyself," provides a perspective from Sir John Oldham, a British doctor cited as the clinical lead for productivity in the national health service. Oldham suggests getting patients to help manage their illnesses offers promise, as would an incentive scheme for workers to lead healthier lives.
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Economist article;
Patient compliance
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MATERIAL
HDPE gel packs in reusable trays
Started at the company’s Montreal, Canada location, gel packs in reusable plastic trays is an initiative aimed at reducing the amount of corrugated to virtually zero, at permitting faster freezing of the hard packs to save pallet positions in the freezer, and reducing energy costs.
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Modular-designed pouch machines
New BMS series include the 5.5 Triplex with new controls and servo-driven technology for producing flat zipper pouches with a 185-mm width at 150 ppm; 1.4 concept machine produces flat pouches in bandoleer strings at 70/min; 2600 L STU 2 CV produces small, narrow “snack-size” pouches with spouts, and larger pouches, with its new design applying the spout at a 35-deg angle for better filling; enhanced design B 1400 makes pouches up to 140-mm W x 230-mm H at 100 ppm.
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Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshops
Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, Princeton, NJ. Healthcare Packaging Conference & Workshops, produced by Healthcare Packaging magazine, will feature operational and package design strategies for pharmaceutical and medical device packagers, May 26.
| EXPO PACK México 2011
Centro Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico. EXPO PACK México features packaging and processing solutions for Latin America, with over 900 exhibitors from 20 countries, June 21-24.
| HBA Global Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY. HBA Global Expo provides personal care and beauty manufacturers with new ingredients, solutions, supplier resources and world-class education to bring new products to market, June 28-30.
| PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2011
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. North America's largest packaging and processing event includes a Pharmaceutical Pavilion, Processing Zone, Brand Zone, Confectionery Pavilion and more, September 26-28.
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