Suicide by injecting insulin is not uncommon both in diabetic and non-diabetic people. The victim usually uses an insulin syringe or a traditional syringe attached to a needle for the injection of insulin, of either animal or synthetic origin. We report a case of suicide by a non-diabetic physician by injecting lispro insulin through an intravenous cannula. To the best of our knowledge, the use...

BACKGROUND Recently, equine multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) have received significant attention as therapy for various conditions due to their proposed regenerative and immune-modulating capacity. MSC are commonly administered to the patient through a hypodermic needle. Currently, little information is available on the effect of such injection has on equine MSC immediate and delayed...

Intravitreal injection of drugs that inhibit the actions of vascular endothelial growth factor bring high economic burden for the health systems. We evaluated the amount of drug volume retained in two different types of syringes with billed and non billed rubber stopper. Difference between two syringe types is 0.037 g. This indicates a significant amount of volume loss due to dead space between...

FABRICATION OF ELECTROSPINNING DEVICE USING MICROCONTROLLER FOR FORMATION OF NANOFIBERS Sriram K 1# , Muruganand S 2# , Balakrishnan P 1# . 1 PhD Research scholar, 2 Assistant Professor, # Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore -641046, India __________________________________________________________________________________________ AbstractDesign and fa...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Prevalence of injection drug users (IDUs) is high in the northeastern region of India. This coupled with unsafe injecting practices as well as practice of tattooing in remote tribal areas call for baseline data on the prevalence of parentally transmitted viral diseases. In the present study we aimed to measure the risk behaviours and seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (H...

BACKGROUND Injection drug users represent the largest proportion of all HIV reported cases in Viet Nam. This study aimed to explore the perceptions of risk and risk behaviours among HIV-positive injection drug users, and their experiences related to safe injection and safe sex practices. METHODS This study used multiple qualitative methods in data collection including in-depth interviews, foc...