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 ...

Questionnaires were returned by 132 (29%) of the 450 surveyed members. Demographic data are shown in Table 2. The majority of respondents worked full time, and 95% were actively attending births.

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 ...

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, ...