BACKGROUND Drug market policing has been associated with various harms among injection drug users (IDU). However, little is known about instances in which drugs and injecting equipment are confiscated from IDU in the absence of a formal arrest. METHODS We examined factors associated with being stopped, searched, or detained by police among participants in the Vancouver Injection Drug Users St...

BACKGROUND Fat grafting has been increasingly widely used in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. However, the long-term retention of fat grafts is still unpredictable. Many critical variables have been found to significantly affect the viability of fat grafts; still, some of the ordinary impact factors are overlooked. OBJECTIVES We performed this study to find out whether repeated aspiration...

PURPOSE To examine the influence of the configuration of prefilled syringes on the usability of ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (OVDs). SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. DESIGN Experimental study. METHODS The maximum force needed to extrude the whole OVD (extrusion force) was compared among viscous cohesive OVDs (OPEGAN Hi(®) 0.85 mL ...

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...

Prefilled syringes are the safest and standard recommended delivery device for most modern vaccines—so why covid-19 vaccines being packaged in glass vials middle of a global shortage? Jane Feinmann reports