SAFER SYRINGES.

• Position: Brief Article

New Jersey joins seven other states in passing laws (Hawaii has a resolution) to protect employees from possible infection, by requiring all health care facilities to use only safety syringes. The syringes have needles that can be retracted or self-sheathed with one hand. An estimated 20,000 needle-stick injuries occur annually in the state, with as many as 1,000 people becoming infected with hepatitis C and HIV, among other diseases, because of them. The law also mandates that all needle-stick injuries be...