Hospitals are facing shortages of supplies such as sterile water and pipette tips due to the spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations during the winter months, according to data from Premier cited by The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.