SOUTHERN COLORADO — The World Health Organization estimated that around 16 billion injections are given every year worldwide. However, WHO also reported that if syringes and needles are not thrown ...

Question: I am a diabetic who lives in McDowell County and would like to know where to properly dispose of a sharps container. I have been told that the Health Dept. will take them, but they don't. I ...

Q: Please help me find the proper way to dispose of sharp things, such as used medicinal needles. You can purchase a sharps container at the pharmacy, but you have to pay $20-$40 to mail them for ...

It’s important to manage and dispose of sharps (needles, lancets, and syringes) safely to prevent injury and disease transmission from needle-sticks. Because of the increased need for safe disposal ...

Needles are increasingly in the household given the popularity of new self-injected prescriptions like Ozempic and Dupixent, but the ability to properly dispose of these used sharps is limited.

Each needle, syringe, vial, and packaging joins the waste from approximately 198 million doses of influenza vaccine the CDC produced for this season, says Jim Anderson, vice president of product ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - The Macon County Health Department has installed a new sharps disposal drop box. The sharps disposal drop box can be found outside of the main entrance at 1221 E. Condit St. in ...

Your garbage can could be a danger to the public. Does it contain syringes with attached needles or disposable lancets you used to administer insulin or other medication? What about painkillers you ...

"The sharps program is a anonymous, safe, free program to mitigate needles in the environment and in the solid waste," Kalliope Chute, a hazardous materials environmental specialist and manager of the ...