Stanford scientists have developed a prototype for a topical vaccine, which may remove the need for injections. They modified ...

Researchers at Stanford University may be on the cusp of overcoming the fear of needles with a topical vaccine applied ...

Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the ...

If you were given a choice of vaccine delivery method, would you rather a needle or a skin cream? Thought so. Well, the ...

Stanford University scientists have now presented another unique method using a common skin bacterium, Staphylococcus ...

The skin was able to generate this immune response even when lymph nodes — the immune hubs that help to activate immune cells ...

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into your one of your muscles.

Hepatitis B, whooping cough, HPV and shingles vaccines are examples. — Toxoid vaccines use a toxin (harmful product) made by the germ that causes the disease. Examples of toxoid vaccines include ...

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into your one of your muscles ...

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into one ...

It sounds a bit like something out of science fiction, but a topical vaccine that is rubbed on the skin is now closer to ...