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 ...

A video depicting an animated man’s harrowing experience with the healthcare system, including an avoidable unsafe injection, is the grand prize winner of the third annual Film Festival at the of the ...

Increasing education on injection safety, enforcing clinical policies and monitoring adherence can help hospitals curb unsafe injection practices, according to Pharmacy Times. Harmful infection ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Epocrates, Inc. are educating healthcare professionals about safe injection practices conveniently and ...

“We want to do no harm. We don’t expose the patient or provider to any avoidable risk and we want to ensure that the practice does not produce dangerous waste. Injection safety has to be a part of the ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control analyzed the different infection practices carried out in U.S. healthcare settings, according to the study’s abstract. Researchers ...

Nearly 70 people have been recommended to receive testing for hepatitis B and C and HIV after they received flu shots from syringes that had been reused. Nearly 70 people have been recommended to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An HIV outbreak among children in Sindh, Pakistan, was associated with multiple recent injections or infusions, ...

{mosads}The agency believes the figure does “not represent the full extent” of the trend because it is difficult to link infections to specific healthcare facilities. In its report, the GAO ...