THE pain, discomfort, unpleasantness and anxiety attendant upon hypodermic injections given to children is well known to most physicians, particularly to those, such as pediatricians and allergists ...

Leeches may be creepy, but many people find hypodermic needles even creepier. That's one of the reasons why scientists have developed a new leech-inspired blood collection device, which draws ...

Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that ...