ATLANTA - If you are a needle-phobe, you have lots of company. About 1 in 4 adults have a strong fear of needles, according to the CDC, with about 1 in 10 delaying or skipping vaccinations because of ...

Approximately one in four adults has a fear of needles, according to the CDC. Many of those people say the phobia started when they were kids. Researchers developed a five step plan to prevent what ...

According to the CDC, about one in four adults has a fear of needles. Many of those people say the phobia started when they were kids. For some... Want to stop needle phobia in adults? Make shots less ...

It is estimated that up to 25 percent of people have a fear of needles, trypanophobia. That is close to the 30 percent nonvaccinated COVID Americans. After giving thousands of injections as a med tech ...

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 ...

Needle pokes may be children’s biggest source of pain in healthcare and can lead to needle phobias as adults, NPR reported Feb. 13. Needle use is common for children receiving treatment in emergency ...

Doctors say fear of needles keeps many people from getting shots. A pediatric psychologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City said there are tools they’re using to help patients receive COVID ...

More children died from the flu this past season than any year outside of the swine flu pandemic in 2009. Most of them were unvaccinated. That's why some doctors are hoping that the first nasal flu ...

Kimberlee McGregor of Cocoa brought her son Eli, 10 months, into the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center on a recent morning because he was congested ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in four adults has a fear of needles, which many say started when they were kids. For some people, the fear of needles is strong ...