While the standard needle size for vaccination is 1 inch, it's recommended that women over 200 lbs. and men over 260 lbs. get shots with 1.5-inch needles. (Getty Images) Most people don’t want to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Longer, 1.5-inch needles yielded better results in obese adolescents after immunization with hepatitis B vaccine ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. In a new study, the ...

Americans of all shapes and sizes are heading to pharmacies and doctors' offices this fall for flu and Covid shots, but they may not know that size matters when it comes to the needle going into their ...

CROSSJECT’s ZENEO® needle-free auto-injector consistently matches depth of traditional intramuscular injections and exceeds the standards needle length of currently utilized auto-injectors Injection ...

The Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (MRINZ) has made a major breakthrough in determining what needle length is required to ensure successful intramuscular (IM) deposition of vaccines. Most ...