Rural Liberian healthcare workers have never had enough rubber gloves. Caring for patients with bare hands is a common practice, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Because of the high ...

The federal government paid $123 million to build the nation’s first plant to reproduce synthetic rubber into nitrile gloves, but after medical supply shortages ebbed, the Virginia facility sits ...

The first healthcare workers to use rubber gloves didn't don them for hygienic reasons, but for dermatological ones. Caroline Hampton, a niece of the Confederate general and future South Carolina ...

Rubber gloves, including nitrile and latex, have been around for just over a hundred years. Over that period of time, the applications for protection have grown from surgical and medical uses to ...

Sam (the name has been changed) worked for an electric utility. He was working near energized equipment and wearing arc flash gear as he cleaned up oil from a transformer. Because the oil might ...

Manufacturers of medical gloves made from rubber latex can expect a continued decline in exports this year, following the easing of Covid-19 infections and a ban on gloves made from natural rubber by ...

FILAGO, Italy—Synthomer P.L.C. is donating nearly a half million medical gloves to a hospital near its Filago, plant to help in the fight against COVID-19. The company's facility makes nitrile latex ...