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Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain

Posted by timothy on from the non-death-by-a-thousand-cuts dept.

wog777 writes "Researchers led by Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Institute of Technology reported their research on microneedles in Sunday's edition of Nature Medicine. A microneedle contains needles so small you don't even feel them. Attached to a patch like a Band-Aid, the little needles barely penetrate the skin before they dissolve and release their vaccine."

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  1. There's other uses too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A citizen needs some calibration? Don't worry, he wont even feel the needle shot!

    1. Re:There's other uses too by gregrah · · Score: 5, Funny

      has anybody else ever wondered what would happen if one were to crop-dust a heavily populated area with a suitably light-stabilized LSD solution? Or distributed a genetically engineered virus through the ventilation system of the DEA headquarters that spliced in the necessary DNA sequences to make those exposed capable of synthesizing endogenous THC?

      You, sir, have just posted your way in a very exclusive database somewhere deep in the basement of the Department of Homeland security.

    2. Re:There's other uses too by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

      for instance, has anybody else ever wondered what would happen if one were to crop-dust a heavily populated area with a suitably light-stabilized LSD solution?

      Things would get very groovy very quickly. George Clinton would be elected President. Your funk of choice would be the P-Funk.

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    3. Re:There's other uses too by MatthewCCNA · · Score: 2, Funny

      You, sir, have just posted your way in a very exclusive database somewhere deep in the basement of the Department of Homeland security.

      As your post contained that same data, you my find your was to the same database. Just to ensure national security I'm sure someone at DHS is recording every IP that viewed the dangerous information and is preparing a round of illegal wiretaps. Hey look a black helicopter, what's with this strange red dot?

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  2. Re:...and pediatricians and family docs rejoice! by Chazerizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's really only one answer to the ears and mouth problem, which also happens to be one of my all time favorite pick-up lines: "Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"

  3. Re:Does it work in reverse? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unless it's administered by microneedle.

  4. Gee, thanks. by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now when the kids misbehave I won't be able to threaten them with shots from the doctor. Takes the fun right out of parenting...

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  5. lulz by WGFCrafty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Far easier to get mercury and mind control chips into your skin if you can't see the syringe. At least before you could ask to examine your vaccine with a x-ing scope of some kind, now it's HIDDEN in the bandage. HIDDEN.

    THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

  6. Needle pain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just ask the nurse to inject you some analgesic at the vaccination point first.

  7. The Horror! by ceraphis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see it now, the horror story of the future. A killer challenges you to a co-op game of Starcraft 3 and after you pwn some nubs, you high five!

    "Wait, what is this, why did you have a band aid in your hand?" *passes out*

    "The pwning has just begun, Billy Lumpkins. I'll teach you to troll the warlock forum."

  8. Re:...and pediatricians and family docs rejoice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Putting the "sensual" back in "non-consensual" :)

  9. Re:Some details from the article... by jnnnnn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot has eaten my unicode. All those "m"s should be micrometers.

  10. Is this available with caffeine!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is this available for use with caffeine? I could take the *patch* BEFORE the morning coffee. There's nothing a double hit, if you know what I mean.

    1. Re:Is this available with caffeine!? by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's nothing a double hit, if you know what I mean.

      You mean you accidentally the decaf?

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  11. Re:Does it work in reverse? by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 4, Funny

    "in fact I have locally anesthetized myself and performed minor surgery on myself (yes I am a doctor)"

    I've removed splinters as well. Of course, I didn't use an anesthetic because I'm not a doctor.

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  12. Re:Genius by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah... that and a 6'3 415lb body builder with wild eyes being held down by 6 people to have blood drawn with a needle.

    Do your wild eyes make it harder to hold you down? How wild are they? I mean, do they hunt for their own food? Do they eat things raw? While still kicking and screaming?

  13. Re:Some details from the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess this is what happens when Americans attempt to use the metric system...

  14. Re:Does it work in reverse? by selven · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've put splinters in. Without anesthetic, because I am a warrior.

  15. Re:Some details from the article... by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Funny

    I kid you not, I was in a in Germany store about 2 months ago, there was a bunch of tourists, a couple came to a meat counter and the guy said: "I would like 100 kilograms" of some sausage. The woman at the counter looked funny at him and I intervened knowing how punctual the Germans sometimes are.

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