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 ...

Recent research from the Yale School of Public Health indicates that a widely accepted strategy to decrease the transmission of the hepatitis C virus through needles may not be as effective as hoped.

Citing rampant use of the same needle to inject more than one person, the World Health Organization has--some might say finally--launched a new policy to make unsafe injections less prevalent. Part of ...

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 ...

To enhance the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infection, factors related to regular participation in the Amsterdam Syringe Exchange and the borrowing of syringes were studied in 131 ...

Public health experts and injection drug users in California consistently stated that syringe exchange programs are a necessary but insufficient component of a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy ...

Many residents have expressed concerns with needle litter throughout the city. Public health experts say stopping the program ...

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 ...

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

Syringe-injectable biomaterials, medical devices and engineered tissues have attracted great attention as minimally-invasive implants for diagnosis, therapy and regenerative medicine. Free-standing ...