In the early 1950s, manufacturers began using extruded tubing in packaging applications for liquid medicines and cosmetics. By the 1970s and 1980s, extrusion technology had advanced to include ...

A group of healthcare organizations is working to develop new tubing standards in attempts to prevent potentially harmful tubing misconnections. The luer is the standard tubing connection on many ...

The thin plastic tubing of infusion sets that connect insulin pumps to the body typically need to be changed every two or three days—but a new version in the U.S. more than doubles that timespan. The ...