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 ...

Workers at “needle exchange” spots across the city may be forced to collect used drug syringes that end up as litter under a new bill unveiled Thursday. Council member Oswald Feliz’s new ...

Shortly after sunrise, John Gobbi stepped gingerly across a sidewalk in Boston’s South End strewn with dirty and discarded drug needles. Every so often his work boots crushed another syringe ...

The VO1 arthroscopic surgical robot. [Image courtesy of Convergence Medical] Australian medtech company Convergence Medical recently brought in about $3.1 million (AU$5 million) to support its ...

The company claims it has developed a world-first arthroscopic surgical robot and, with the new funding, is now valued at $30 million, according to a Jan. 16 news release. Convergence will use the ...

One surgical technique for locating and treating problems with the knee joint is knee arthroscopy. An arthroscope, a tiny camera, is inserted into the knee by the surgeon after making a tiny incision.