Medical students regularly stuck by needles, often fail to report injuries

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 15:28 in Health & Medicine

Medical students are commonly stuck by needles -- putting them at risk of contracting potentially dangerous blood-borne diseases -- and many of them fail to report the injuries to hospital authorities, according to a Johns Hopkins study published in the December issue of the journal Academic Medicine.

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