An estimated 25% of Americans have a fear of needles and 16% skip getting vaccines because of that fear, according to Harvard Medical School. Sometimes trypanophobia stems from a traumatic childhood ...

From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be ...

A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine is set to be a gamechanger not only when delivering the vaccine itself, but also for people who are needle-phobic. A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine ...

Sievers is a vaccine researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and the NIH Vaccine Research Center. I’m a vaccine researcher. And I’m terrified of needles. It’s not something I’m ...

A fear of needles for those who must get medication delivered by injection can go one of two ways -- facing the moments of fear and getting through it, or avoiding the whole thing altogether. But when ...

A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine is set to be a gamechanger not only when delivering the vaccine itself, but also for people who are needle-phobic. New Griffith University research, ...