So, staying away from intravenous drug use does not guarantee a person will not develop this infection any more than having heart damage guarantees that a person will.

Jackson is still taking intravenous penicillin to stop the infection. He came home from the hospital wearing a small medication pump that delivers a steady dose of penicillin via a PICC line. PICC ...

Infectious endocarditis resulting from intravenous drug use was associated with an increased incidence of intracranial hemorrhage over 4.5 years in a single-center experience.

Before “shooting up,” drug users often fail to clean injection sites, or do so insufficiently. 6,15–17 In a study of 1057 injection-drug users in Baltimore, abscesses were twice as common ...

The proportion of invasive, bloodstream-infecting MRSA cases that occurred among injection drug users more than doubled in five years, the study found. In 2011, 4 percent of those MRSA cases ...

Research to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual conference examined the association between intravenous drug use and hospital admissions for a previously uncommon heart ...

Dr. Gum said the heroin epidemic has really changed the patient demographic. In 2012, Norton Leatherman Spine saw only five patients with these serious spine infections, and IV drug use wasn’t a cause ...

Now, risk factors include living in public housing, high-risk sexual behaviors, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and illicit drug use, according to the findings.

When patients need long-term treatment with IV antibiotics, hospitals usually let them do it at home — but not if they have a history of injection drug use. A Boston program wants to change that.