When an ulcer creates an actual perforation in the digestive tract, surgery is currently the only treatment. In the ...

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The Henry & Stark County Health Departments and First Choice Healthcare Clinics remind residents they have Residential Sharps Collection Kiosks in six communities. These kiosks, funded by the Illinois ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A new Illinois law will allow people to have easier access to sterile hypodermic needles and syringes. The law will require pharmacies to sell sterile syringes and needles ...

Monte Levin, an early adopter of 'harm reduction' treatment and needle exchanges, died in July at age 79. Two needle exchanges still exist in Kitsap County, along with other facilities in Tacoma. A ...

Scientists in Sweden have developed a groundbreaking “skin in a syringe” — a gel packed with live cells that can be applied directly to wounds or even 3D-printed into skin grafts. Designed to help the ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Prefilled syringes to treat macular degeneration caused larger and more frequent spikes in intraocular pressure (IOP) as compared with medication drawn from vials, a study of ...

“It’s terrible. I have had hundreds and hundreds of complaints from the residents in that area. They want to see it gone because it’s a threat.” “Needs-based exchange is considered best practice by ...

Becton, Dickinson and Co. plans to invest more than $35 million to expand a prefilled flush syringe manufacturing facility in Nebraska to better meet growing demand from U.S. hospitals and health care ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Sustainability is no longer an option, rather, it’s a priority for Sentara Health System as it swapping out old practices and ramping up on waste reduction. In a move to scale ...

A synthetic opioid 1,000 times more potent than morphine is infiltrating the street drug trade in Adelaide, Australia, sparking fears of a wave of overdoses that could be lethal. In the first study of ...