Health officials are hoping to avoid outbreaks spread through IV drug use. — -- Las Vegas now has a new tool to fight HIV and hepatitis C: vending machines that dispense clean needles. Local ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- A woman squats on a stoop in an alley. She is holding an orange syringe in her right hand. With her left, she is squeezing the air as if trying to catch an insect that is not there.

A new study has found that specific regions of the brain are activated after a drug is taken intravenously but not when the same drug is taken orally, with increased activity correlating to an ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A daily dose of powerful anti-HIV medicine helped cut the risk of infection with the AIDS virus by 49 percent in intravenous drug users in a Bangkok study that showed for the first ...

Rima F. Khabbaz, Diana Hartel, Michael Lairmore, C. Robert Horsburgh, Ellie E. Schoenbaum, Beverly Roberts, Trudie M. Hartley, Gerald Friedland The Journal of ...

The Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the disease, may be able to be given as a set of two weekly shots at home, a study from drugmaker Eisai suggests, ...

Taking a pill is the easiest, least invasive way to take medicine, but unfortunately, not all drugs work that way. Now, Stanford scientists have found “an embarrassingly simple solution” that could ...

Blue lights on skin make it harder to see surface veins. As the “War on Drugs” declared by former President Nixon in the 1970s staggers on, science and governments look for novel ways to combat drug ...