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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. 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?"

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

    Unless it's administered by microneedle.

  3. 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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  4. 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."

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

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

  6. 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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  7. 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.

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

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