Your boyfriend is fortunate to have someone who's looking out for his health and safety. Your concern over sharing needles and syringes is certainly warranted, because it raises the risk of transmission of blood borne pathogens, including Human immunodeficiency virus [2] (HIV), Hepatitis B [3] (HBV), and Hepatitis C [4](HCV). The most effective way to avoid contamination with injection drug use...

Your boyfriend is fortunate to have someone who's looking out for his health and safety. Your concern over sharing needles and syringes is certainly warranted, because it raises the risk of transmission of blood borne pathogens, including Human immunodeficiency virus [2] (HIV), Hepatitis B [3] (HBV), and Hepatitis C [4](HCV). The most effective way to avoid contamination with injection drug use...

Your boyfriend is fortunate to have someone who's looking out for his health and safety. Your concern over sharing needles and syringes is certainly warranted, because it raises the risk of transmission of blood borne pathogens, including Human immunodeficiency virus [2] (HIV), Hepatitis B [3] (HBV), and Hepatitis C [4](HCV). The most effective way to avoid contamination with injection drug use...

Winter deicing and traffic spreads salt to road-adjacent Norway spruce trees in the form of spraying and salt slops. Our use of Na36Cl revealed roots as the main pathway of salt uptake. One-shot application of a concentrated Na36Cl solution to spruce saplings by both irrigation and spraying causes macroscopic damage to the needles and affects the needle phyllosphere. Irrigation affects the tree...

The aim of this study was to apply the Health Belief Model to explain the adherence to the recommendation not to recap needles by dentists and dental assistants of the public health system in a municipality in the State of São Paulo. A questionnaire validated and adapted for the oral health area was used, which included variables related to the frequency of recapping and health beliefs using Li...

brain foreign bodies and penetrating missile injuries of the brain are familiar topics for iranian physicians, especially after iran and iraq war. but it’s not easily plausible that there is a couple of sewing needles in the cranium of a patient who has not any history of head trauma or penetrating injury. the patient was a 42-year-old man who admitted in neurology ward of mottahari hospital in...

Diagnostic lumbar puncture is essential to the diagnosis of central nervous system infections, subarachnoid haemorrhage and others neurological diseases. Myeloradicular involvement or life-threatening adverse events due to the procedure are rare, but less severe complications are more frequent. Post-lumbar puncture headache is the most common complication, by spinal fluid leakage due to delayed...

The clinical need for needle-based therapies capable of accessing tissues unreachable by conventional needles has motivated substantial research into steerable needles (see [1] and [2] for a review of these technologies). In particular, it has been observed that curved paths can be useful in percutaneous procedures [3]. Gilbert, et al., showed that helically pre-curved concentric tube nitinol n...

An infectious microorganism, identified as Listeria monocytogenes, has been isolated from the bloodstream of pregnant mice fed a diet containing Pinus ponderosa needles. When the isolate was injected into pregnant mice, reproductive dysfunction and other changes, including speckled livers, spleen atrophy, and hemorrhagic intestines, appeared to mimic the signs of the disease in pregnant mice fe...