Intravenous (IV) therapy is administering fluids directly into a vein. It benefits treatment by enabling water, medication, blood, or nutrients to access the body faster through the circulatory system ...

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 ...

ABILENE, Texas — Hospitals have been forced to ration IV fluids and find new ways of hydrating patients after a factory that produces IV fluids flooded during Hurricane Helene. Clay Lohse, the owner ...

Hurricane Helene flooding shut down a medical supply manufacturer, causing a nationwide shortage of IV fluids, but Cincinnati hospitals say that they haven't canceled or delayed care as a result. Even ...

Vitamin intravenous (IV) therapy infuses vitamins directly into the bloodstream. It can also offer the body some extra hydration. While many people take vitamins and supplements each day or on a ...

Hospitals have been forced to innovate with new ways of hydrating patients and giving them medications, after a key factory that produces IV fluids flooded during Hurricane Helene. Here is another ...

As the remnants of Hurricane Helene moved inland, the storm flooded a factory that makes intravenous fluids used in hospitals around the country. The Baxter International factory in Marion, N.C., ...