Millions of Americans need daily injections of medication to stay healthy. But how do patients or their parents learn how to do it safely? Diabetes, Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis are just ...

A mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Bristol can improve the accuracy of medical needle-use in surgical simulations. The new model, which produces an effect said to be ...

Administering needle-based procedures in anesthesiology, such as epidurals, is a complex and delicate procedure and the current training methods for doctors are costly and fall short in preparing them ...

The majority of surgeons in training who were accidentally stuck by a needle that increases their risk of hepatitis and HIV infection failed to report it, say researchers who call for better ...

A PILOT scheme to train residents in Nelson on how to deal with discarded needles and syringes is now under way. People living in the town’s Southfield ward received instruction from Pendle Community ...

PHARMACY staff who distribute sterile needles to drug users are to receive training to reduce the spread of HIV and other blood borne viruses. Leading social charity Extern, which supports more 4,500 ...

In the Tijuana neighborhood known as La Zona Norte, you don’t have to look very hard to find people using drugs. On the sidewalk of a busy street, a man uses a needle to inject himself in the neck.