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India: Safer injection campaign a breakthrough success

Marc Koska’s Safepoint Trust, the East Sussex-based, UK charity, reaches over 500 million people in India with its Safer Injection message, alters India’s Health Policy, and is set to prevent millions of deaths...

Public supports closing safe injection site, Ottawa says

Canada's health minister recently claimed at an international conference that Canadians want to shut down Vancouver's safe injection site, but critics say his comments are ideologically driven and...

Mosquito: Blueprint for a Painess Needle

Too clever by half! Scientists are developing a microneedle based on the proboscis of the female mosquito. The goal: painless injections. The difficulty lies in creating a needle that's thin enough to painessly...

Opinion: Austin, It’s Time to Rise Up

"P.O.T.U.S Thursday, July 3, 2008 It’s time to get mad and put the Austin Police Department in their place. They are now planning to pull you over, and if they suspect you’ve been drinking, the police will stick a needle in your arm, and take your blood without a warrant....

Chinese man sticks 2008 needles in his head to mark Beijing Olympic Games

A Chinese man has decided to commemorate the upcoming Olympic Games by sticking 2008 needles into his head. I suppose that shows real dedication to a love of the Olympics - although I would much rather wave a flag...

The Big Dipper has a New Star!

There is a new star in the sky – and it’s located in the Big Dipper!  The new star is a white dwarf star that was discovered at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas in Austin."May 2, 2008...

Tim Hortons Goes BioHazard

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Two things that are a sign of the times, Tim Hortons Donuts, long touted for it's coffee and donuts and family atmosphere, a National Institution by some, now has to be...

Pete Doherty Caught On Movie Shooting Heroin

"Pete Doherty has been caught injecting heroin on film, just hours after claiming he was drugs free. The Babyshambles rocker is shown in the footage - shot on a mobile phone at his Wiltshire home on Friday - 'cooking up' the class A drug in a spoon before filling up a needle...

Doctors battle to save 'human pin-cushion'

This is a follow-up to kerren's article on the woman whose grandparents are believed to have inserted 26 needles into her body."Doctors in China have saved the life of a woman who had 26 pins and needles inserted...

Ink-Stained Wretch: Man tattoos wife on back; she leaves

Ah, love...how you remind us not to permanently alter our bodies. Pledging eternal devotion with tattoo ink is not often recommended, but in this case it was almost akin to relationship suicide: A man spent nearly...

Woman Full of Needles

"Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman.  They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen's body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a...

Doctors In Southern China Find 6 Sewing Needles In Baby Boy's Body

of all the dumbass things to happen!! Apparently doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported...

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Manu's friend got a S.H.O.T. and he got a L.O.L.L.Y.P.O.P.

"A day before yesterday Manu went to the doctor with his friend for his vaccination. Usually he doesn't like going there but that day he had no problem. He even agreed to go inside the doctor's chamber when Mira asked him. Inside, he proudly sat on the chair. When his friend...

How to make a solar compass

"# Place BUSO horizontally (very important!) # Place the needle (or stick) vertically on the drawing, on the spot corresponding to the current time (hour) # Rotate BUSO until the needle’s shadow overlaps the intersection spot between the mark corresponding to the current...

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