Yet for decades, a group of enterprising biomedical engineers have bene working to figure out the answer to this question: Can we design vaccines without needles, that still inoculate a patient with a ...

Nasal vaccines offer convenience and another option for those wary of needles, but traditional vaccines are best for young ...

English physician Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine more than 200 years ago to protect against smallpox. It was needle-free, involving arm-to-arm inoculation with the vaccinia virus.

PharmaJet has struck an agreement covering the use of its Tropis needle-free injection system in Nigeria, positioning vaccinators to deploy the technology in a project intended to tackle a poliovirus ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Roughly a third of all vaccine injections done in ...

Instead of a shot, someday getting vaccinated against disease may be as pleasant as drinking a yogurt smoothie. A researcher has developed a new oral vaccine using probiotics, the healthy bacteria in ...

Japanese Health Minister Norihisa Tamura on Tuesday said that the foreign matter found in the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine vials in the southern prefecture of Okinawa was likely caused when needles were ...