(Family Features) Going back to school means new classes, new supplies, new friends and sometimes even new schools — all of which can be overwhelming. The annual back-to-school routine takes on an ...

Jul. 8—Area residents now have a new way to dispose of used or unneeded needles and other sharps intended for medical use. The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma installed a red sharps disposal box at its ...

Modern technology has allowed for the creation of machines that can even handle the disposal of hazardous medical waste like sharps containers on-site (source: celitron.com). One of the finest example ...

A medical term for devices with sharp points or edges that can puncture or cut skin, sharps may be used at home, at work and while traveling to manage medical conditions. Examples of sharps include: ...

Alison Sherman, Torrance’s waste management coordinator, said in a previous Ask Us column that syringes are considered sharps waste and should be disposed of like needle sharps waste. You can dispose ...

In the minutes before her social psychology exam last semester, Shrayder Fischer, an IU junior studying clinical psychology, reached into her backpack for a pencil and accidentally pricked herself on ...