Medical products maker Baxter International Inc. and Northwestern Medicine recycled more than 6 tons of intravenous bags during a recent pilot project in Chicago. The Deerfield, Ill.-based company ...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV ...

The production of critical medical supplies used by hospitals nationwide is at risk due to the impact of Hurricane Helene on a North Carolina manufacturing facility. The Baxter North Cove facility in ...

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has recycled more than 12,000 pounds of IV bags waste that would otherwise be sent to landfills. The IV bag recycling initiative was led by medical equipment ...

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 ...

U.S. hospitals are experiencing a shortage of IV fluids, triggered by a disruption at Baxter’s North Carolina plant following Hurricane Helene. As hospitals have scrambled to conserve supplies, at ...

Each day, hundreds of thousands of polyvinyl chloride IV bags head to the landfill from hospitals and health facilities around the nation. For the first time, someone's trying to divert them into the ...