Millions of filthy, used medical gloves -- some even obviously bloodstained -- were imported into the US from Thailand amid a shortage of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Farther north, a glove factory in New Hampshire acquired four high-speed production lines, so it could start churning out medical gloves quickly. But those lines have not been completely assembled.

As the COVID-19 epidemic exploded across the United States in 2020, America’s supply of personal protective equipment ...

These investments helped the medical industry avoid even more severe shortages of PPE and other essential products.

FILE-In this July 5, 2020, file photo, healthcare workers help each other with their personal protective equipment at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami ...

Medical-grade gloves aren’t just for medical settings, though — if your job or hobbies require working with hazardous chemicals, the gloves form a barrier between the contaminants and your skin.

Top healthcare officials have said that the US does not have enough stockpiled medical equipment like masks, gowns and gloves to fulfill the anticipated need of nation’s health care system as ...

Items that are needed include N95 or paper surgical masks, protective gloves, medical gowns, hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes. In Waukesha County, donations can be dropped off at local fire ...

Malaysia’s medical glove factories, which make most of the world’s critical hand protection, are operating at half capacity just when they’re most needed, The Associated Press has learned ...

Together, these glove-manufacturing projects got about $290 million in public funding, part of a roughly $1.5-billion investment made by the federal government since the start of the pandemic to ...

A worker inspects disposable gloves at a factory in Malaysia, a country that has been the top supplier of medical gloves to the U. S. and which is facing increasing competition from China.