Poor kidney function is common among injection drug users, particularly those with HIV, according to a study appearing in a recent issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology ...

Preoperatively receiving epidural steroid injections increases risk of infection after a lumbar spinal fusion, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Researchers examined a ...

Corticosteroid, a drug that suppresses the immune system, is often injected into patients to alleviate pain and inflammation in the months before total joint replacement surgeries, but it may increase ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Treatment with biologic injections may lead to serious complications, such as infections requiring multiple ...

Lumbar epidural steroid injections (LESIs) are associated with a heightened risk for infection after lumbar spine decompression surgery, a new meta-analysis shows. In a review that included more than ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about counterfeit Ozempic injections that may pose an increased risk of infection for users of the medication. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An outbreak study based in West Virginia showed that people who inject drugs and have had hepatitis C are at ...

BERGEN COUNTY — Hospitals spent Monday reassuring hundreds of patients that they did not expose them to fungal meningitis by using tainted steroid injections, the Record reported. Hospital officials ...

A woman in the U.S. has died from severe neurological symptoms that were caused by an abnormal protein — which she was unknowingly injected with nearly 50 years earlier. Having shown no neurological ...

Doctors recommend getting a tetanus shot as soon as possible after suffering a cut or injury. Tetanus is caused by the ...