Discarded needles can carry harmful blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis B or C or HIV Increasing drug use in the Southern Tier is suspected for the rise in improperly discarded needles The Southern ...

There are no safe needle exchange programs operating in Auburn, but councilors felt it was necessary to have some sort of ...

Barriers to adherence include “complicated regimens, fear of injection pain, social embarrassment, lack of confidence about self-injection, perception of injectable therapy as inconvenient, and belief ...

BD announced the launch of the BD U-500 Insulin Syringe, the first insulin syringe designed for patients with diabetes taking Humulin R U-500 insulin (regular insulin [human, rDNA origin]; Eli Lilly).

Kim Botteicher works in the basement of a Bolivar, Pa. church. She provides syringe services as part of her charitable work. In the basement of a former Catholic church, in a tiny Westmoreland County ...

Joseph, type 1 from Rhode Island, asks: Do insulin syringes and pen needles expire? Wil@Ask D’Mine answers: Yep! They sure do, just like beer and Cool Ranch Doritos, both syringes and pen needles ...

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

Over 120 different syringe filter product codes offer one of the most diverse options for meeting users’ application needs, from medical device sterile filtration to research use cell culture purposes ...

“No exposed flesh,” says Mayia Ogbebor, the syringe-disposal program manager for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which runs a 12-person, 12-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week needle-pickup crew funded by ...

OK, so picture this: MacGyver is hiding in a medical lab, and needs to build a weapon using whatever's at hand. Well, if he had a syringe (along with lots of scrap aluminum), he could perhaps make ...