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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:Does it work in reverse? by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 0, Troll

    "the last time I had a blood test, my body just shut down and stopped pumping blood"

    You're an idiot. If your heart actually stopped (which is the only way your body can "just stop pumping blood") then you would have been told so after the doctors where you were restarted it. You don't just have your heart stop, "feel like you're about to pass out", and then feel just fine after the needle is taken out.

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  2. Re:Genius by Alarindris · · Score: 0, Troll

    One time a dentist thought I was kidding and surprised me with a needle in the face. My reaction was so severe I cracked his chair backwards trying to get away from it.

    That's pathetic. Suck it up and act like an adult.