"We have been slow in finding solutions for preventing infections from intravenous catheters," said Althumayri. "A reason could be that we lack good platforms to test new catheter designs or ...

Bard Peripheral Vascular, a subsidiary of Becton, Dickinson and Co., has reported 30 serious injuries and four deaths linked to the device due to a potential risk of helix fractures or breakages ...

These incentives were allegedly designed to persuade the groups to use Bard’s prescription form to prescribe intermittent catheters to their patients. Bard began marketing intermittent catheters in ...

Access Vascular, Inc. (AVI), a leader in tackling critical vascular access challenges with its advanced hydrophilic biomaterial technology, today anno ...

The patients would then take the Link prescription to a medical equipment supplier to buy the catheters. Two years later, Bard announced that it bought Liberator Medical Supply and Liberator ...

a type of silicone rubber that can potentially serve as a platform to evaluate risks of bacterial infections from intravenous catheters and test wearable sensors, among other biomedical applications.