When federal investigators examined IV bags at Baylor Scott and White's Surgicare North Dallas facility, the Texas Medical Board reports they found tiny holes.

North Carolina is the second state after California to ban the use of toxic chemicals in life-saving medical products. The ...

In 2024, the IV Bag Market is expected to be valued at USD 1.9 billion, with a CAGR of 6.1%, reaching USD 3.4 billion by 2034. The increasing global geriatric population, combined with the growing ...

Years after a tampered IV bag became deadly, no new rules are in place. Survivors want to change that. Story by Ginger Allen • 1w ...

A jury convicted an anesthesiologist for injecting dangerous drugs into IV bags, causing one death and numerous injuries, the Justice Department said April 12. Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr., MD, 60 ...

Each day, hundreds of thousands of polyvinyl chloride IV bags head to the landfill from hospitals and health facilities around the nation. For the first time, someone's trying to divert them into ...

Months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria damaged Puerto Rican plants that manufacture saline-filled IV bags, hospitals across Ohio and in Stark County are still dealing with a shortage of the bags ...

At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a patient in need of vital fluids is being pumped with Gatorade via a stomach tube. It’s the result of a widespread shortage of IV bags connected to ...

New research calls into question what's in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. Using a different intravenous fluid instead of the usual saline greatly reduced the risk of ...

IV saline fluids in their ubiquitous plastic bags and tubes are a convenient way to deliver medication to a patient through an intravenous needle, allowing gravity to do the work.