It may look like a small pimple or boil. It could be ... generally require intravenous (IV) antibiotics, which a needle delivers directly into your veins. Sometimes, an antibiotic such as methicillin, ...

Once there, they would park and unload plastic bins filled with equipment: needles and cookers for intravenous drug use, glass pipes for meth and crack, and aluminum foil and straws for fentanyl. No ...

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Renuka warned of a potential surge in HIV cases among drug users, citing the vulnerability of this group to contract and spread the AIDS virus. Dr. Renuka’s concerns come after it was found that ...

Chesapeake Regional Healthcare is alerting patients who received care from a former Chesapeake Regional Medical Center nurse ...

But unlike other states, they allowed youths already on hormone therapy to continue, and allowed puberty blocking drugs for those younger than 18. This year, Senate Republicans have pushed to outlaw ...

New drug delivery technologies, such as nanoparticles, hydrogels, and self-powered microgrippers, are showing great potential ...

Users who share needles are at risk of such diseases. The team in Pretoria have built relationships with the drug users, encouraging them to accept an opioid-substitution therapy, and offering ...

KENT, Wash. — Kent City Council is considering a new ordinance that would ban drug users who are charged or convicted of a crime from specific parts of the city. The proposed ordinance is known ...

Katz says many IV drug users have been spared because they have learned to test heroin for fentanyl before shooting up. But casual drug users do not necessarily have that experience and have been ...

Purpose: The frequency of drug administration errors and incompatibilities between intravenous drugs before ... from all other drugs and suggested the use of an idle i.v. line for infusion ...