Problem: ISMP has repeatedly stressed the importance of never using parenteral syringes to prepare or administer small volumes of oral/enteral products; instead, an oral syringe should always be used.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Two innovations — a syringe that auto-disables so it can't be reused and a blood test that allows extensive results from a tiny sample — are providing low-cost answers to some of the ...

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 ...

Ronnie Warn was bewildered when he spotted the sign on the door of the Santa Ana office where he routinely brings used needles and picks up clean ones. The Harm Reduction Institute was closed, it said ...

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

The science is solid. The politics are more partisan than ever. While COVID-19 raged in the United States, a set of public health crises was pushed to the background. HIV and drug use flourished ...

“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 ...

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