Microplastics get everywhere, and there’s increasing attention being paid to their potential effects on human health. It’s ...

According to research published in the ACS partner journal Environment & Health, microplastics — particles from 1 to 62 ...

A Texas anesthesiologist will spend the rest of his life in prison for injecting drugs into patients’ IV bags, resulting in at least one death and causing multiple patient cardiac emergencies.

The North Carolina facility is responsible for an estimated 1.5 million IV bags a day, roughly 60% of IV bag supply in the United States. Dr. Chris DeRienzo with the American Hospital Association ...

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere that scientists have looked for them. Now these bits of plastic -- from 1 to 62 micrometers long -- have been found in the filtered solutions used for ...

Research from the 1970s suggests IV fluid bags can contain solid particles, but few scientists have followed up on what those particles are made of. Researchers Liwu Zhang, Ventsislav Kolev Valev ...