Las Vegas will become the first city in the United States to dispense free needles from vending machines under an experimental project aimed at reducing the rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections.

Vending machines offer sodas, coffee and snacks to consumers. In Nevada, vending machines also will be used to dispense free, clean needles to drug addicts. Las Vegas unveiled the experiment Wednesday ...

Las Vegas health officials are turning a familiar piece of equipment — the vending machine — into a first-in-the-nation experiment to automate the dispensing of clean needles for intravenous drug ...

(LAS VEGAS) — Las Vegas now has a new tool to fight HIV and hepatitis C: vending machines that dispense clean needles. Local health officials announced this month they have started a needle exchange ...

Las Vegas is about to set up vending machines to dispense clean needles, free of charge. The machines will be designed to make equipment more readily available for intravenous drug users, who can pass ...

LAS VEGAS -- Southern Nevada will soon become the first place in the country to have vending machines that dispense free needles to drug addicts. They look just like any other vending machine, except ...