Clients and volunteers in a parking lot in Cedar Rapids gather around boxes of supplies that include an overdose reversal drug, books about safe injection practices, fentanyl test strips, housing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of low dead space syringes was associated with a 76% reduction in the odds of hepatitis C virus ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Youth and other people abusing drugs need constant supply of needles, syringes and other ...

The first global review to quantify the impact of needle syringe programs (NSP) and opioid substitution treatment (OST) in reducing the risk of becoming infected with the hepatitis C virus has now ...

By Shreoshree Chakrabarty: For individuals managing diabetes, insulin must be administered into the subcutaneous tissue—the layer of fat located between the skin and muscle. This tissue, also called ...

Health experts are concerned about a potential HIV outbreak among opioid users on Long Island amid a shift in recent years from prescription drugs such as OxyContin to injectable heroin and fentanyl.

Recently, there has been an increase in the use of therapeutic intraocular agents. Some of these agents are suspensions that are difficult to inject through small gauge needles, whereas others flow ...

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The ultrathin films are able to be injected using minimally-invasive syringe needles and can be used as a platform to deliver molecular and cellular drugs. The use of shape-memory polymer also enables ...

Frustrated with used needles littering city streets, some local officials have called for renewed restrictions on syringe ...

Swallow the wrong microbe, and you might end up in the hospital with a needle or two in your arm — and plenty of itty-bitty bacterial needles poking at you from the inside. That’s because many ...