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 ...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Ohio called off the execution of a condemned killer with multiple health problems on Wednesday, because members of the state’s execution team were unable to find a vein to insert an ...

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama officials called off the Thursday lethal injection of a man convicted in a 1999 workplace shooting because of time concerns and trouble accessing the inmate’s veins. Alabama ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A recent column was about a person who fainted when getting blood drawn. My problem is that no one seems to be able to put an IV into me. Any ideas? -- L.L. ANSWER: Some people just ...

As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff members sought help from a doctor -- a move generally discouraged by ethical and ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EchoNous, a developer of intelligent medical tools and the parent company of Signostics, is applying the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the extreme ...

-- makes the first stick count. It's nothing more than a combination of red, white and blue lights. But within Moore Regional Hospital's Emergency Department, the Venoscope is a nurse's best friend. A ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a ...

In the limited literature available, nurses have cited “dark skin” more often as the rationale for an IV attempt failing than for one succeeding. Darker skin does not inherently make venous access ...