Hospitals are experiencing a national shortage of sterile water for injection vials, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Here are five things to know about the shortage. 1.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Water from your tap, while safe to drink is not necessarily safe for all uses. Using tap water to clean contact lenses, fill a humidifier or for any number of other uses may ...

Just because something is safe to eat or drink doesn’t mean it’s safe to squirt deep inside your face, like your sinus cavities and eye sockets, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers, health-care providers, and health-care facilities to not use certain brands of saline and sterile water medical ...

Tap water is not sterile, and using it in home medical devices can result in serious and even deadly infections. But in a study published Wednesday in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, ...

Water is used in many processes within a hospital’s sterile processing department, ranging from the initial cleaning of devices to final rinses. If water quality does not meet appropriate standards, ...

The CDC recommends people use distilled water instead of tap water, which is not sterile, for nasal irrigation practices Getty The CDC says that neti pots may be a transmission route for the invasive ...

A Seattle woman died after becoming infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The woman told her doctor she had used tap water in a Neti pot, instead of saline or sterile water, CBS affiliate KIRO reports.

The case of a woman who died from a brain-eating amoeba after using filtered tap water to clear her sinuses has some wondering how to safely use neti pots. The woman, 69, was using tap water filtered ...