Like the trees that produce them, bristlecone needles are long-lived; they last up to 30 or 40 years. While living bristlecone limbs thus carry a heavy load of needles, such a stable needle mass ...

Used needles can infect users with diseases like ... who’s on the edge happens to get a clean needle and stays alive long enough to get into treatment,” Councilman Paul Kashmann, who voted ...

A Bronx council member wants to force the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pick up used drug needles that ...

The FDA has approved a new type of painkiller that doesn't come with the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioids.