Michael Bell, MD, associate director for infection control at CDC‘s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, discussed the dangers of improperly using single dose vials and ways healthcare providers ...

The authors present an aseptic-filling process for freeze-dried liquids using the closed-vial technology. Thilly and coauthors introduced closed-vial filling systems, called "Crystal" technology, for ...

The small glass vials used to transport Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine hold more than the expected five doses — and that's OK. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday night that it was ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday determined that vials found at a Pennsylvania facility this week with labels reading “smallpox” did not contain the virus that causes ...

Waste, cost, and "common sense" continue to rationalize healthcare providers' use of single-use vials of injectable medications for more than 1 patient. Following publication of Single-Use Vials: Cost ...

The update of US Pharmacopeia Chapter <797> in 2008 included guidelines stating that single-dose vials (SDVs) opened and maintained in an International Organization for Standardization Class 5 ...

A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday night and an ...

THE Ministry of Health was aware of an incoming donation of 80 vials of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine “just prior” to its arrival in the country, but the necessary documents for the United States’ gift to ...