Subcutaneous (subQ or SQ) injections are shots given in the fatty tissue layer (subcutaneous fat) under your skin. Your skin has many layers, and the subcutaneous layer is beneath the epidermis ...

Several drugs and almost all injectable vaccines are delivered ... Intramuscular injections are absorbed faster than subcutaneous injections. This is because muscle tissue has a greater blood ...

The new intradermal technique requires just a fraction of a vaccine per shot ... the shots were administered from a traditional subcutaneous injection in the arm, to an intradermal technique ...

Researchers have developed an intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that enhances the immune system’s response to the virus, providing longer-lasting, greater protection than vaccine injections ...

The FDA announced on Tuesday that it has issued an emergency use authorization to allow healthcare providers to give the vaccine via an intradermal injection vs. the previous subcutaneous injection.

But, there is one side effect that is far more common among people who get the vaccine injected into their arm fat. The tenderness and pain at the injection site after a subcutaneous shot into the ...

A 10-year-old boy presented to the clinic with a chief complaint of a reaction on his leg 2 days after receiving a single subcutaneous dose of varicella vaccine in the left thigh (different ...