Attorneys across the nation have noticed an increase in the number of potential plaintiffs coming forward with a painful condition called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) that they believe ...

A needlestick injury is a percutaneous piercing wound typically caused by a needlepoint, resulting in exposure to potentially harmful body fluids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

More than a third of emergency medicine residents who had a needlestick injury did not report it to the employee health department, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Medical residents in training face a myriad of difficulties on the job. Needlestick and sharps injuries are particularly painful ones. In an attempt to determine a pattern in these types of injuries ...

There were 21 children involved in this incident, of which one was HIV-positive. Of the 20 children potentially exposed to infected blood, 19 attended for follow-up testing for HIV, hepatitis B virus ...