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 ...

How to Inject Insulin: Mixing, Measuring, and Injecting Made Simple: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty For individuals managing diabetes, insulin must be administered into the subcutaneous tissue—the layer of ...

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 ...

Bobby Tolbert is a slender, soft-spoken man with a wide smile and an understated elegance. He remembers when he began shooting heroin as a teenager in the 1960s. "When I was coming up," he shakes his ...

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 ...

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist taken as a once-weekly injection. It’s administered with a tiny needle that punctures ...

Expanded Partnership Will Increase Access to Diabetes Care for Communities Across the U.S. and GloballyPARSIPPANY, N.J., Nov.

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.

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 ...

All day long, the users of Alaska's biggest syringe exchange arrive carrying detergent jugs and Gatorade bottles stuffed with used needles. Some come in shiny trucks, others in beat-up vehicles. Some ...

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 ...