Tech | July 19, 2010 | 40 comments

Vaccine patch may replace needles

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Hate needles? Well here is some good news, after it is reported scientists at Emory University have developed a vaccination patch. Unlike the processes of using one needle the patch is covered in microscopic needles, which dissolve into the skin and vaccinate the patient against flu.

The scientists claim the test performed on mice show the patch method is better at protecting the immune system against flu than the current system does.

The study into the technology is continuing, but with this break through some are saying the patch will mean people can vaccinate themselves from home via a home delivery. Human trails are set to carry out over the next few years.

"If proven to be effective in further trials, the patch would mean an end to the need for medical training to deliver vaccines and turn vaccination into a painless procedure that people could do themselves.

It could also simplify large-scale vaccination during a pandemic, the researchers said.

Although the study only looked at flu vaccine, it is hoped the technology could be useful for other immunisations and would not cost any more than using a needle."-BBC
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  • islek
    • 0
      islek  
    • I wonder if there will ever be a "package patch," where several standard vaccines are included in a single patch: polio, mumps, etc. Then again, that may be too much for an immune system to handle at once...

      It's just something that came to mind since many inventions these days cater to making things more compact and simplified. Not that those things are necessarily beneficial in the long run...

    • 1 year ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Haydeneck
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      Haydeneck  
    • its really a great innovation. Replacing needles would be the very much helpful to people residing remote areas, where doctors hardly can go and inject vaccine to patients.

    • 1 year ago
  • larrysnotes
    • +1
      larrysnotes  
    • You want fun ? Go to the FDA drug shortage site, see what an ambulance near you will not have to save your life. No morphine , no Epinephrine. UVA is out of epi, Tennessee changed how to treat you due to major losses of drugs nation wide. This has been happening for 3 months 5 days. Has been moved back another 30 days. Don't die anytime soon, EMS in all 50 states may not be able to save you. Are you a diabetic? No D-50 for you. You can go back many months , when you do you may just change your mind on how well you view the damn great job the FDA has did its work for your tax money. Run with this story, no one in the main stream media cares. Have a nice night, and don't OD on your fun drugs, we are out of Narcan also.

    • 1 year ago
  • AudioAgent
  • oceanbacon
  • Gravity_Man
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  
    • I'm just waiting for the "Emotion Patches" like in the show Doctor Who.

      *applies an empathy patch to neck* *applies three happiness patches*

    • 1 year ago
  • alexandrek
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • alexandrek:

      The last stacked sexy nurse I had told me not to worry the scanner won't harm you, at which she turned the machine on & proceeded to semi-fry the inside right half of my brain, also damaging the inner ear, mastoid and frying the cartilage & nerves in my ears.

      No big whoop, only took me 5 years and $2500 worth of nutrition products to recover. Lots of god particles also helped.

    • 1 year ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • alexandrek
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • alexandrek:

      No uhm actually it was a good while afterwards, a delay for the cartilage in my ear to start burning, perhaps a year. Sunburns as a child were re-activated. I used to would get those burns so bad large pieces of skin layers deep would peel off, in the 50's long before sun screen was around. The scans must have triggered cancer since the ear had that sun damage.

      Then it was a good 3 more years after that that structures inside my brain would sometimes move back into proper position. I believe the scans seriously dried them out.

      You do know there's not any nerves inside for feeling pain right? So when the scan was doing the inner burning I could sort of know something was being done internal and for a second I considered jumping out but I wondered if moving while a scan was turned on might wipe the brain like happens to a hard drive when a newbie turns the computer off while it's writing to the drive. I think I was close to deciding to jump but by then I was frozen. It may have been burning the motor cortex. I couldn't move.

      I've posted about it several times so last year a group of veterans filed a class action lawsuit. They had all had the same thing happen at the Veterans hospital. Before even that though the NY Times did a 8-page report as they investigated into the specifics. Turned out the scanners are run by a software program that was incorrectly written. One young man had been barred from operating the scanners yet his hospital was letting him train other young people to run them.

      Bottom line is the machines aren't being calibrated very often. If there comes a next time in the jousting arena I plan to ask when the machine was last tested and maybe place a jar of water where they want my head and see does the water boil. There was one specific case the NY Times reporter found out about and the young man had been really cooked in his neck-to-brain internals. He died a bad death leaving young children behind.

      A bit similar to my 26YO son who took sudden onset leukemia. He got on a tanning bed not knowing he was having the cancer already started, so when they turned on the machine it gave him an all-body hotfoot and he jumped from the bed. He passed away in June 2006.

      I had visited him in the hospital, not knowing I had a rather active virus in my chin, so the hospital didn't put up any signs warning Visitors not to touch the cancer patient.... so when the phone rang he was talking and I sidled around and put both bare palms on his shoulders giving him an easy massage. I absorbed the cancer through my hands then it combined up 4 weeks later with the virus I had and they slammed me hard one day as I was standing next to the kitchen sink.

      The entire right side of my chest, all the cells suddenly began to collapse, as if turning into instant cadaver in a coffin. My experiences with hospitals has left a very sour taste. I wouldn't date a hospital employee if she was steaming hot in a dish full of apple pie filling buck naked with whipped cream and cherries on top. With chocolate sauce on her thighs.

      My immune system apparently hasn't ever worked very much. If I contract something from bodily contact and sweat their pores to mine it might be last days on earth. That day will come soon enough w/out help. It sure as hell won't come from a tanning machine ride down a steep mountainside with no brakes.

    • 1 year ago
  • Varex_Sythe
  • Fourfingaz
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      Fourfingaz  
    • Um, vaccines are still, Um,.............Bullshit!!!! You keep putting mercury and Embalming fluid into your body and pretend your healthy. Why your at it drink some Antifreeze. Oh, What, you didnt know all these were in these Vaccines...ooopppps my bad. ; )

    • 1 year ago
  • Saladin
  • Fourfingaz
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      Fourfingaz  
    • Saladin:

      If your sticking up for Vaccines and saying they are fine.....LMAO You better pull your head out of your ass and do some more research. If you only knew how many people have died From these. And Not to mention who have serious illnesses and Auto immune Diseases from these glorious things your Loving Doctor puts in your arm.
      But believe what you want.....I am not your mom.

    • 1 year ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • Fourfingaz:

      There is no research, anywhere. Googling your way to "facts" doesn't mean it's right.

      There was only one study ever published that linked vaccines to harm, autism, and it was provably a fraud and not a single further study has found anything of the type.

    • 1 year ago
  • Fourfingaz
  • Saladin
  • Fourfingaz
    • +1
      Fourfingaz  
    • Saladin:

      Well my Friend Ignorance is bliss or in my case Health and you keep believing all that bullshit you hear. I'm assuming you work for big pharma or your a mislead Med student........Either way I have seen the facts In real life so do tell me about your so called one Study. When you bury a few of your friends do to Doctor Error maybe the scales might fall off your eyes and dont think for a second that just because it has "science" behind it. Means its even close to safe. I know they push these things through with little testing. It$ Called BIG MONEY, I'm Sorry, BIg Pharma. You can be sincere and you can be sincerely Wrong.

    • 1 year ago
  • Saladin
    • 0
      Saladin  
    • Fourfingaz:

      Yeah, and when you've buried someone who died of an easily preventable disease, go ahead and talk to me about the "evils" of vaccines.

      Sure, Big Pharma is corrupt and science isn't always right.

      Remind me again how that's a justification to IGNORE when it IS right in favor of just never admitting when YOU'RE wrong?

    • 1 year ago
  • Patrick_Russo
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      Patrick_Russo  
    • Awesome! I heard about this on BBC News driving home late last night/early this morning. They are supposed to be tough enough to ship and easy enough for anyone to apply. No more pricks! I wonder if it's cheaper or not. Needles and medical training are expensive :P If it's reasonable to say it'll cut costs down it could do a HEAP of good for spreading vaccinations around worldwide. Kudos!

    • 1 year ago
  • cclark_productions
  • toyotabedzrock
  • Saladin
  • CalgarC
  • Patrick_Russo
  • CalgarC
  • littlwarrior
    • 0
      littlwarrior  
    • Look a flu shot is ow but not really that big, they make one of these for tetnus shots and i will be singing from the rooftops, ill tell u that much!

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • Pollo_Loco_
  • littlwarrior
  • Pollo_Loco_
    • +2
      Pollo_Loco_  
    • Um, I can get used to an occaisional needle but I'm a little scared of tons of microscopic needles dissolving into my skin. Sounds itchy at best.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
    • 0
      bailey78  
    • Pollo_Loco_:

      They have to get the human body used to the Nano cells in order to make the transformation easier. Other wise the body will reject the inplants and kill the host. You see this is just the begining they have a plan that may save the human race or turn us into real freaks of nature. where do you think they are going with all this Nano technology??

    • 1 year ago
  • Patrick_Russo
  • bailey78
  • CalPal
  • artemis6
  • HeroMAY
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