The four best places for an intramuscular injection are the shoulder, hip, thigh, and buttock. Clean the site with an alcohol swab, insert the needle at a 90-degree angle, and avoid massaging the area ...

Subcutaneous injections are a method of administering medication just under the skin, between the fatty tissue and muscle. It allows medication to be absorbed slowly over a longer period of time.

After receiving an injection, some people experience symptoms at the injection site on the skin. This reaction is a common adverse effect of vaccines, Botox injections, biologics, and chemotherapy.

CS21 was a three-arm, randomized (1:1:1), open-label, parallel-group Phase III trial of 12 months' duration incorporating adult male patients with histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the ...

Degarelix is a new hormonal therapy from the GnRH receptor blocker class of agents that immediately blocks the GnRH receptor and achieves fast testosterone suppression without an initial surge. In the ...

The United States’ opioid problem has steadily been getting worse. In 2022, more than 110,000 people died of drug overdoses, "two-thirds of whom succumbed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl," ...

Contraindicated to pregnant women and patients with known hypersensitivity.

Most new petrol cars you see today are equipped with fuel injection systems or injector motors. These have almost wholly supplanted older carburetor motors. They are more reliable, effective, and ...

In this companion article, Judd W. Moul, MD, of Duke University Medical Center, shares expert insights into factors affecting treatment decisions in metastatic hormone-sensitive and ...