The FDA is asking medical device manufacturers to avoid giving purple wristbands to patients as an indicator they have an implanted device. This is to prevent confusion with the purple wristbands ...

These bracelets are more than jazzy items to dress up your arm. To hospital personnel, they have real meaning. What we're talking about are those temporary bracelets placed on your arm when you become ...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Missouri Delta Medical Center is joining hospitals across the state in adopting a new wristband standard to prevent medical confusion. A statewide survey by the Missouri Center for ...

LOS ANGELES — In a nondescript manufacturing plant on a quiet San Fernando, Calif., cul-de-sac, a khaki-green machine the size of two pool tables end to end sucks in bright pink ribbon and spits out ...

Here, in the northern stretches of suburban Los Angeles, the private company that began producing plastic hospital wristbands out of a Burbank garage more than 50 years ago has become the nation's top ...

West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur, La., has implemented bar code technology designed to help tackle medication errors, reflecting a larger nationwide trend in which hospitals adopt health IT ...