CENTRAL SYRINGE SERVICES. (Pp. 59. 3s. 6d.) London: Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1957. THE sterilization of syringes by boiling is acknowledged to be uncertain and unsatisfactory, but it is still common practice in most hospitals. During the last few years an increasing number of hospitals have developed a central sterile syringe service. Most of the teething troubles have now been over...

OBJECTIVE To estimate access, activity and coverage of needle and syringe programmes (NSP) in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. METHODS Two data sets ('regional' and 'high-coverage sites') were used to estimate NSP provision (availability/number of sites), NSP utilization (syringes distributed/year), needle and syringe distribution (needles/syringes distributed/IDU/year), IDU reach...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare the cleaning ability of the more biocompatible 1% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) with passive ultrasonic irrigation (PUI) to that of 2.5% NaOCl with syringe method irrigation. MATERIAL AND METHODOLOGY Thirty-six extracted permanent single-rooted mandibular premolar teeth were decoronated at the cemento-enamel junction and divided randomly into four groups (nine ...

BACKGROUND Although syringe distribution is effective in preventing HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDUs), there is little evidence on the required coverage to substantially reduce HIV transmission. METHODS A mathematical model is developed to explore the relationship between the endemic HIV prevalence among IDUs and the coverage of syringe distribution. Data from IDU populations...