Florida hospitals and health providers are coping with a national shortage of IV fluids exacerbated by the two major hurricanes that have hit the Southeast in the past month. Hurricane Helene damaged ...

In early 2024, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) reported a record 323 active drug shortages, many affecting sterile injectable medications. This situation was exacerbated later ...

The FDA confirmed the nationwide shortage of sodium chloride 0.9% injection, or IV saline, has officially ended. The IV saline shortage, which has affected hospitals and clinics across the country, is ...

A longtime shortage of a type of sterile intravenous saline is now resolved, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. According to the FDA, sodium chloride 0.9% injection products have been ...

A shortages of IV fluids has led to postponed and canceled surgeries at hospitals across the country.Photo by Jae C. Hong - AP Surgery was Katie Adase's best chance at finally getting a diagnosis for ...

The Drug Shortage Guardian Award is presented annually to individuals and organizations demonstrating outstanding, patient-centered leadership during a crisis in essential medicine supply. In fall ...

This Aug. 8, 2020, photo shows a sealed bag that contains a saline IV solution at a hospital in Portland, Oregon. ST. LOUIS — Hospital systems in the St. Louis area are taking measures to conserve ...

The combination of a severe flu season and reduced supplies of intravenous (IV) fluid bags after Hurricane Maria devastated manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico has hospital teams strategizing on ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Martin Makary has announced that the IV fluid shortage for sodium chloride 0.9% injection products is now over after nearly a year of disruption.