Nearly 200 stakeholders, who convened at Premier healthcare alliance and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s open meeting, developed 22 safe injection practices. Proceedings, background materials ...

An infographic created by the One & Only Campaign explains four key practices necessary for safe injections. The infographic is one of the new resources on safe injection best practices the CDC and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free, downloadable checklist to help improve compliance to safe injection practices. The checklist, which can be utilized in both inpatient and ...

The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation has released a briefing on safe injection practices, including specific recommendations for risk assessment, policy development and performance ...

A step-by-step overview of safe injection techniques and common medical best practices.

Even as health care workers and patients are becoming more informed on the absolute necessity of always using safe injection practices, incidents involving unsafe injection practices continue to occur ...

Needle-sharing programs, also referred to as needle exchange or syringe services programs, are integral to public health efforts. These initiatives supply clean needles and syringes to individuals who ...

Editors’ Note: Knowledgeable Brooklynites with insights into their own drug problems will sometimes find themselves drawn to a spot near the 125th Street subway and Metro North stations, far north of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A year after winning a major ...