A new shorter needle could make flu shots less of a pain. Sept. 6, 2011— -- Squeamish about getting a flu shot? You may be in luck. This fall, people seeking flu shots may be able to skip the big ...

Researchers led by a team at INSERM and King’s College London have shown how stretching the skin stimulates immune cells and increases the skin’s ability to absorb large molecules, including those ...

If you were given a choice of vaccine delivery method, would you rather a needle or a skin cream? Thought so. Well, the latter might be a viable option soon, as Stanford scientists have used a topical ...

If you're skittish about needles, this year's flu shot will really get under your skin, and that's a good thing. The 2011-2012 vaccine is being delivered by a shorter, finer needle that injects the ...

WASHINGTON - One day your annual flu shot could come in the mail. At least that's the hope of researchers developing a new method of vaccine delivery that people could even use at home: a patch with ...

Vaxess, a Cambridge startup with ties to Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, raised $27 million to test its technology in clinical trials after developing the idea for more than a decade. In the future, getting ...

Nobody looks forward to getting a shot, especially not little kids. So when we heard about a tool designed to make injections hurt less — as discovered by Kristin Flood, a lawyer and the mother of two ...

Subcutaneous (subQ or SQ) injections are shots given in the fatty tissue layer (subcutaneous fat) under your skin. Your skin has many layers, and the subcutaneous layer is beneath the epidermis and ...

Around the world, an estimated 49 percent of individuals have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, but billions more are still waiting for a shot. Just five of Africa’s 54 nations are ...

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Researchers show that stretching the skin stimulates immune cells and increases the skin’s ability to absorb large molecules, including those present in vaccines. Publishing September 17 in the Cell ...