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 ...

Hospitals in the region appear to be somewhat immune to a nationwide shortage of saline intravenous solution that has forced facilities elsewhere to scramble. At Mayo Clinic in Rochester and Mayo ...

The nationwide shortage of intravenous (IV) saline has resolved, the FDA announced on Friday. The shortage of sodium chloride 0.9% injection products in part stemmed from damage in late September 2024 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has declared that the nationwide shortage of sodium chloride 0.9% injection, for IV saline, is now over. The FDA credited the end of the shortage on its collaboration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. President Trump and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy attend a press conference, in Washington (Reuters) ...

Hurricane Helene’s flood-related damage to a key medical supply production facility last week in Marion, North Carolina, has serious potential to affect patient care nationally because it manufactures ...

Saline intravenous fluids are as effective as more costly solutions in treating intensive care patients and keeping them alive, Australian researchers report. "Just about every patient admitted to the ...

Results of a new meta-analysis show that intravenous fluid (IV) therapy using balanced solutions rather than commonly used saline can reduce the risk of in-hospital death of critically ill patients by ...

(AP) – 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 ...

Is intravenous (IV) acetaminophen a viable pain management option after third-molar extraction? In a recent study, researchers tested intravenous acetaminophen against a placebo of IV saline in 72 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned hospitals and health care workers of a national shortage of intravenous (IV) saline solution, and urged doctors to conserve existing supplies. The ...