Science news articles about 'intravenous drug users'

A group set up to fight drug abuse in Cape Breton believes intravenous drug users are being unfairly excluded from a provincial program to safely collect used needles.

... of blood. The couple has been married for two decades and the husband was an intravenous drug user. The scientists say the case study disproves some suspect theories about elite suppression that ...

... a man who had sex with other men or having sex with a partner who was HIV positive or who was an intravenous drug user. Overall, the study showed that: 23 percent of the college students reported ...

... liver. The only approved treatment for HCV is an anti-viral drug known as pegylated interferon alpha. ... HCV infections occur among intravenous drug users (IDUs), a vulnerable population that is often ...

... these, 90 percent were neither men who have sex with men (MSM) nor intravenous drug users, demonstrating the limited effectiveness of only testing those in high-risk groups. ERs have experimented ...

... one patient in the study had received interferon. Granulomas sometimes can develop in intravenous drug users from talc in the injection solution, but examination of the biopsies with polarized light ...