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

Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

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

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 ...