Most people don’t want to think about the needle part of getting a vaccine any more than they have to — but you might want to start. Your weight may mean that you need a larger needle than you assumed ...

NEW YORK – Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. In a new study, the researchers report that ...

The Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (MRINZ) has made a major breakthrough in determining what needle length is required to ensure successful intramuscular (IM) deposition of vaccines. Most ...

When a salmonella bacterium attacks a cell, it uses a nanoscopic needle to inject it with proteins to aid the infection. If the needle is too short, the cell won't be infected. Too long, and the ...

One of my highly intelligent residents recently inquired about my personal fluidic settings for our phaco machine platform. I told him the numbers: maximum vacuum of 250 mm Hg, flow rate of 45 cc/min ...