You Won't Feel A Thing: No More Needles
from the no-need-to-build-character dept
I remember the first time I received a serious shot for something many years ago, the nurse came in and stood off to my side fiddling with the needle for a bit, and then nonchalantly asked me: "Are you a man or a mouse?" I was confused for half a second and started to say "What?" when her arm flung out and jabbed my other side with the needle, totally taking me by surprise and, of course, causing me to let out a quick yelp... to which the nurse responded, "Ah, a mouse." Not exactly the best display of my manliness, I guess. Of course, experiences like that may be a thing of the past sometime soon. A scientist has, after 20 years of work, created a device that would get rid of the need for needles in certain cases. It supposedly works by opening up microscopic pores on your skin using ultrasound, and letting the medicine pass through. They claim the ultrasound disrupts the membrane on your skin -- which, honestly, sounds a bit scarier than a quick jab with a needle -- and takes about a day to heal. The article notes a few other non-needle techniques for injecting stuff into you, but this is apparently the first to use ultrasound.
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Back in the 80s
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Bleeding edge or PR tricks?
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Someone seems a bit defensive today...
I would bet that the vast majority of stories we link to on Techdirt were first announced by PR people. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just that our policy is that we want to see news articles, and not press releases. That's what we write about. I thought that was pretty clear, but I guess not.
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no needles
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I'm sure its improved since then - but 20 years of work seems like a lot of effort for a very marginal gain. Exactly how is this better than an injection, other than for people who have irrational fears of needles?
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I'm sorry, but this strikes me as being extremely rude. It is not the nurse's job to gauge your masculinity, it is her job to administer a shot. I would have been extremely pissed.
MLO
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