They’re fast, effective, and widely used—but new insights reveal steroid injections may come with important trade-offs you ...

I read with great interest the study by Tiryaki et al., examining the effects of different intramuscular injection (IMI) sites—specifically, the ventrogluteal (VG) and vastus lateralis (VL) sites—on ...

Researchers boosted levels of a heart-healing hormone in mice and pigs with a single injection of a new, experimental form of self-amplifying RNA that prolonged hormone synthesis for many weeks. When ...

For a heart just damaged by a blocked artery, timing matters. So does access. That is what makes a new experimental treatment stand out: instead of being delivered directly to the heart, it is ...

To prevent this bleeding, a vitamin K injection has been recommended for newborns in the U.S. since the early 1960s. It's given as a single, intramuscular shot soon after birth. "Vitamin K is a ...

"It [botulinum toxin] is a complex medical intervention with complication profiles strongly influenced by chronic disease, psychiatric history, immune status, and anatomical risk factors." HealthDay ...

Each year, more than 5 million cosmetic filler procedures are performed in the U.S. — but these injectables can potentially block key blood vessels, putting patients at risk for serious harm. In a ...

CHU de la Mère et de l’Enfant, Université de N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad. The aim of this study was to characterize the epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic, and outcome features of soft tissue ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...