BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Hospital Association urges a statewide color code for wristbands alerting staff to a patient’s wishes and risks. Health care facilities routinely use such bands, but colors ...

At Memorial Hermann hospitals, a red wristband on a patient's arm signifies an allergy to a medication. To staffers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, a red bracelet means the ...

Children’s Hospital Colorado will no longer identify patients as male or female on hospital wristbands. The move is intended to make “everyone who walks through our doors to feel comfortable and at ...

Children's Hospital Colorado has removed gender markers from patients' wristbands as part of an effort to support their "unique gender identity." The hospital said its staff understands that it's "not ...

No more wearing purple survivor wristbands or pink breast cancer wristbands or green Darfur wristbands or any other color bands while you're a patient at Lancaster General Hospital. Starting next week ...

The legacy of Thomas Vera, the 57-year-old man who wandered from his hospital bed on May 27 and fell to his death in a nearby canyon, can be seen today on the wrists of some current patients at UC San ...

Japan’s Mie University Hospital and automatic-identification technology company SATO are testing SATO’s new ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID wristband to ensure its safety with patient-implantable ...

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 ...

A hospital has introduced a system to give babies barcode wristbands rather than hand-written bands, it said today. Kettering General Hospital in Northamptonshire is introducing the new system which ...