Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in ...

Injection drug use in the Appalachian region led to a significant syndemic of fatal overdoses and rising rates of HIV and viral hepatitis.

For years, the idea of establishing supervised drug injection sites has been a long-standing goal for some progressive California leaders looking to address the burgeoning overdose crisis. Efforts to ...

In the first human trial of a new therapeutic, a single injection of lepodisiran reduced levels of lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), to undetectable levels for nearly one year, according to late-breaking ...

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Most people know the feeling of getting a shot and having your arm feel sore for several days afterward. Some might even expect it as a side effect. The soreness happens when medications are injected ...

Weight loss can be a challenge, even for those who eat healthily and exercise regularly. But injectable type 2 diabetes medications — also known as GLP-1 and GIP injections — are changing the way we ...

Little dark things shouldn’t be in vials of a drug, which is why one lot of an injection drug used to deal with low blood pressure under anesthesia got recalled. Provepharm said it pulled lot No.