Posts Tagged ‘hypodermic needle’

Health & Medicine - Monday, June 8, 2009 12:59 - 0 Comments

Patch takes the ‘ouch’ out of flu vaccines


microneedles

The vaccine patches used in the experiments contained an array of stainless steel microneedles coated with inactivated influenza virus.

EMORY (US)—Flu vaccine delivered through microneedle skin patches is just as effective at preventing influenza in mice as immunization by hypodermic needle, researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology find. Continue…


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