Normally, hospitals are, well, flush with IV fluids. But right now, that isn’t the case. In addition to the physical damage to many hospitals and clinics in the region, Hurricane Helene knocked out ...

A shortage of IV fluid is forcing hospitals across the country to conserve and even postpone surgeries and procedures after an IV fluid production facility in North Carolina was hit by the devastating ...

The fallout from storm damage to a North Carolina factory that makes critical hospital supplies will be felt broadly and could linger, experts say. Flooding triggered by Hurricane Helene hit a Baxter ...

North Carolina hospitals reeling from Hurricane Helene may soon get some relief from a critical IV fluid shortage. The Food and Drug Administration approved changing the expiration date on multiple ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Health care facilities in the Bay Area are changing protocols to account for the national shortage of IV fluids. Hurricane Helene is to blame, as the biggest supplier of fluids, ...

Dec. 12—Gov. Chris Sununu urged the Biden administration to act more decisively to avert a crisis after some surgeries were recently canceled at three New Hampshire hospitals due to a chronic shortage ...

In late September, Hurricane Helene damaged a major supplier of intravenous (IV) fluids. In this report, we follow up on what ...

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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 ...

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