LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Ohio called off the execution of an ailing 69-year-old killer Wednesday after the executioners couldn’t find a vein to insert the IV that delivers the lethal drugs. It was only the ...

Q. I had an IV inserted and removed three months ago, and still have a bruise that follows my vein up my forearm. The bruise is yellowish in color and still tender to the touch. The vein also feels a ...

Being an intravenous nurse involves a lot more than sticking patients with needles. This specialty branch of nursing, with teams in most major hospitals, requires ...

Battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that began in his lymph nodes, Stephen Glover also suffers from a lifelong fear of needles that sometimes causes him to faint at the sight of a syringe. So when ...

A Winnipeg mother is looking for answers about how intravenous fluid ended up in her two-year-old son's arm tissue, causing swelling, skin tearing and first-degree burns. Trilena Francois says she ...

A NEED exists for an intravenous catheter that possesses better properties than the currently available polyethylene catheter. Ideally, a catheter for intravenous infusion should have the following ...

Trilena Francois says she took her toddler, Logan, to the emergency room at the Children's Hospital on the afternoon of Jan. 16 because of a growing cyst on his collarbone. He ended up with burns on ...