Many people are frightened of needles because they have learned to associate discomfort with immunizations or blood draws. In fact, fear of needles affects the majority of children under 11, 20 to 50 ...

From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be ...

Our editors independently select these products. Making a purchase through our links may earn Well+Good a commission Trypanophobia, or a fear of needles, is defined by an excessive or irrational fear ...

“Can’t wait to get a shot,” said no one ever. In fact, having a fear of needles is very common. So much so that research shows about 2 in 3 children and as many as 1 in 4 adults experience a phobia of ...

Any new parent has been through it: The distress of seeing your child scream at the doctor’s office. The torture of having to hold them down as the clinician sticks them with one vaccine after another ...

Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor's office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks ...

Instead of stabbing yourself, or someone else, in the thigh with a needle to deliver a dose of adrenaline to counter ...

As a fourth-year medical student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Amanda Walker knows that vaccinations are both safe and essential. Getting one, however, is still an ordeal for Walker, ...