Local companies are developing technologies that they hope could replace a painful poke with something that feels more like ...

OTLEY residents are being invited to take part in the creation of a grand tapestry to commemorate two milestones in the town's history - the ...

The humble needle, a staple of modern medicine, carries a significant danger, needle-stick injuries (NSIs). These injuries, caused by accidental punctures from contaminated needles, put millions ...

A nurse who injected a record shop owner with a muscle-relaxing anaesthetic intended "nothing less" than to kill him, a jury has been told. Darren Harris, 58, from Middlesbrough, stabbed Gary ...

The bleakness of Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle is intimate and inescapable. Loosely inspired by the story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish child caretaker turned serial killer in the ...

The bill would require city health staff to work with providers of the city’s “syringe service programs” to develop a plan to pick up as many needles as they hand out even if they are not ...