Prevention Archive

Orange County announces the opening of the Clean Needle Program in Santa Ana, receiving thousands of clean syringes in exchange for used ones. (Joe Mabel/Wiki Commons)

in: News / 03/28/2016 / by: Betsy Johnson

Orange County program shares clean needles

Last year a group of medical students from UC Irvine realized Orange County California did not have a clean needle program. So they decided to pair up with

Illustration of Zika virus in blood Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library

in: News / 03/11/2016 / by: Betsy Johnson

Zika virus arrives in Orange County

A Costa Mesa man in his 40s was bitten by a mosquito and was infected with the Zika virus after traveling to Central America in January. Within a