Massachusetts: A law bans the disposal of medical sharps (needles, syringes and lancets) in household trash.
This is more expensive than buying bottles of insulin and filling syringes as needed.
Insulin syringes are expensive, and many patients want to reuse needles to save money.
By then, cheap, plastic syringes were in wide use, but they weren't usually sterilized.
The tasks can be sophisticated, too, from monitoring respiratory devices to cleaning catheters and preparing syringes.
Dutrow told a hearing officer he didn't know how the syringes got into his desk.
The veterinary bills, plus the shelves of painkillers, antibiotics, syringes, and thermometers, had run into the thousands.
They discussed chemical formulae, quantities of chemicals, syringes to be used to create a detonator, glue and drinking straws.
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In one campaign, French doctors used six syringes to inject 80, 000 African workers with a medicine for sleeping sickness.
You are right that the reuse of insulin syringes and lancets is dangerous.
Anti-virus software has long played up its medical overtones, with talk of vaccination and inoculation, and logos involving syringes.
You fashion powerup syringes out of local flora and bigger ammo pouches out of the skins of mighty predators.
Like drug addicts, we fill our syringes to inject the liquid and in the process we pump the Earth dry.
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Their lawyers have argued that the infections stemmed from poor hygiene at the hospital where syringes are reused many times.
"They have sometimes resorted to field executions when they find people smuggling in syringes and other basic medical items, " he said.
One of the physicians then produced a handful of syringes, King said.
The group offers free HIV tests, condoms and crucially - clean syringes.
Naloxone comes in a pack containing the drug in syringes and the packs were supplied by the PHA to local health trusts.
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These pre-filled syringes are especially convenient for patients who have visual impairment.
Yet it is short of such basic necessities as syringes and antibiotics.
The doctor King alleged held the syringes spoke by phone with CNN on several occasions, emphasizing how everyone inside the hospital felt abandoned.
The guerrillas have perfected the production of these mines using household items like PVC piping and syringes with the rubber taken out, which act as plungers.
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There is undoubtedly waste in the system but I visited a hospital near Piraeus two days ago that had a shortage of syringes, dressings and basic drugs.
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Finally, he said, to quiet her complaints, he decided to keep some of the injection paraphernalia used syringes, bloody gauze and other items hidden in his house in New York City.
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As Wall Street drooled over new-economy industries, Mr Kozlowski dug into less glamorous work, buying struggling firms in businesses such as pipes and valves, water sprinklers, fire extinguishers, syringes and nappies.
The mines are made cheaply from fertiliser, syringes and building materials and can be detonated by pressure devices such as tripwires, or by remote control using radio frequencies or mobile-phone signals.
He was arrested this month in New Hampshire in connection with stealing drugs from a hospital, and it's believed he infected 30 people in that state with hepatitis C through infected syringes.
In other green tech news, 3Doodler launched the world's first 3D-printing pen and a group of teens are working on turning mosquitos into "flying syringes" to deliver vaccines to humans.
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) ripped into McNamee for past lies that he has admitted to, while professing "amazement" that McNamee would have kept syringes and other medical waste for more than five years.
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