An unnerving case of a St. Paul nurse practitioner reusing syringes and exposing 161 patients to infection risk shows that unsafe injection practices still occur in U.S. health care. But the reasons ...

A decade after a historic HIV outbreak in Indiana, syringe programs that helped contain the crisis are at risk of ...

A nurse in a Texas hospital mistakenly believed saline flush prefilled syringes could be reused in separate patients’ intravenous lines, which led to a hepatitis C transmission in 2015, according to a ...

A syringe delivery and pick up program has the green light from state health officials to operate in Santa Ana. City officials strongly object. Why it matters: The nonprofit Harm Reduction Institute ...

nearly 1 percent “sometimes or always” reuse a syringe but change the needle for use on a second patient; and fifteen percent reported reuse of a syringe to enter a multi-dose vial. Such actions can ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Some organizations tasked with cleaning up downtown Portland say the number of needles they’re finding is increasing exponentially. Just in the past ’21-’22 fiscal year, ...