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Here’s How Canadian Doctors Helped Solve Rural America’s Worst HIV Outbreak
A pocket of rural Indiana around the tiny town of Austin saw three new cases of HIV between 2009 and 2013. When the outbreak broke out, that jumped to 22 a week.
Australia Has a Long History of Fighting Harm Minimization Drug Policies
Getting Pill Testing Into Music Festivals Is a Struggle, but So Was Legalising Needle Exchange Programs in the 1980s
The Idiot, the Pisser, and the Nazi: Tattoo Artists on Their Most Memorable Customers
These days body art lovers are just as varied as the images they cover themselves with.
Meet the Girls Behind São Paulo's Female-Only Tattoo Shop
We talked with the shop's artists about how they got started, jealousy from male peers, and their love of permanently marking people's bodies.
Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions of Lives
The World Health Organization has called for the global use of single-use syringes by 2020.
$500K Offered to Catch Prince Edward Island’s Potato-Tampering Terrorizer
Straight out of a Halloween urban myth, someone has been putting needles in PEI potatoes. Big Potato is on the case.
Our Cyborg Future Could Be a Needle to the Brain
Bio-nano-engineers have devised tiny electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain.
German Shoppers Surprised with Free Needles Hidden in Their Meat
This week, a German woman is on trial for slipping needles into supermarket meat in an attempt to show consumers how dangerous the industrial food system is.
New Zealand’s Sex Workers Are Fighting for Public Toilets in Christchurch
The 2011 earthquake in Christchurch affected everyone in the city's limits, but one group who are still peculiarly disadvantaged are sex workers.
In Defense of the Isle of Wight
Stereotyped as inbred and backwards, "the Island" might be crappy, but it's a difficult bubble to leave.
200 LED-Infused Syringes Bring Spanish Health Care Policy to Light
The guerrilla art installation is a just the latest in a string of activism from Madrid studio Luzinterruptus.
Why Are So Many of Us Avoiding the Flu Vaccine?
Most people view parents who don't vaccinate their children as kooks who are endangering everyone's health—so why don't more of us get flu shots?