SEATTLE (AP) — A respiratory therapist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing a ventilator and other medical...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Nearly a third of the $110 million that Pennsylvania spent on personal protective equipment and ventilators in the early months of the pandemic went toward face shields, a...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Taiwanese maker of processor chips for Apple Inc. and other customers plans to invest $3.5 billion to set up its second U.S. manufacturing site amid American concern about...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s state prosecutors say about a hundred ventilators imported from China by a private company and paid for by the country's government have been found to...

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Sterigenics, the medical supply sterilization company that has been battling lawsuits and claims of increased cancer rates from fumes, announced Monday it has decided...

BEAN'S GRANT, N.H. (AP) — A rescue team carried heavy medical equipment for miles to get to an ill hiker in the New Hampshire wilderness.

Fish and Game says a U.S. Forest Service backcountry...

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — Medical equipment maker Baxter International is expanding a Mississippi Delta plant, with plans to add 50 to 100 new employees in about two years.

Baxter spokeswoman Lauren Russ told The Associated Press that the company is doubling capacity at its Cleveland plant to fill bottles of irrigation solution used to clean tissue and wounds.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Inventory records show Veterans Affairs medical facilities across Ohio have lost track of more than $1.1 million worth of medical equipment over three years.

WBNS-TV reports VA medical centers in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton and Chillicothe all lost equipment between 2014 and 2017.

BEIJING (AP) — Technology and U.S. anxiety about Chinese competition are at the center of the trade dispute between the world's two largest economies.

Washington accuses Beijing of trying to build its own tech champions by stealing or pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology.

Here are some of China's biggest names in telecoms equipment, clean energy and medical equipment:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Multnomah County has signed a letter of intent to sell Wapato Jail to a developer for use as a distribution center.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the letter was signed Tuesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita mother is hoping someone will return a bag with medical equipment designed especially for her toddler daughter.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has given more than $25 million for mammogram machines and other medical equipment to Wyoming hospitals and clinics since 2010.

The organization is a national nonprofit that works to improve rural health care.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A medical equipment company plans a new headquarters in southern Indiana.

The state says Monday that Inscope Medical Solutions, which develops suction and video laryngoscopes, is moving forward with the plans. The devices help quickly clear a patient's airway during medical procedures to make breathing possible.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Officials say an Ohio home medical equipment supplier has sustained damage after catching fire.

The Canton Repository reports (http://bit.ly/2rBeI46 ) Miller's Healthcare Products for Independence was closed when a fire broke out Sunday evening.

The Perry Township Fire Captain says the fire appears to have started outside. Capt. Ron Riggs says the fire spread to the roof line, causing a partial collapse of the roof.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two defense contractors have been sentenced for helping steal $3 million in medical equipment intended for Marine combat units, including those in Afghanistan.

Henry Bonilla was sentenced Friday in San Diego to 15 months in federal prison. Richard Navarro got a year behind bars.

They pleaded guilty to conspiracy involving the theft of equipment from Camp Pendleton Marine base in Southern California.