July 17, 2009 — Epinephrine auto-injector needle length may be too short to reach the muscle for intramuscular delivery in a significant number of children, according to the results of a study ...

San Diego, California — It's still early days, but brand-new formulations of rescue benzodiazepine could be in store for patients who have acute repetitive seizures (ARS). Promising phase 3 trial ...

An intramuscular injection delivers medication into a muscle. Doctors frequently use intramuscular injections to administer vaccines and certain other drugs. Injection sites include the upper arm, hip ...

Intramuscular administration of tranexamic acid (TXA), a drug used to target severe bleeding after childbirth, is safe and quickly reaches therapeutic concentrations in pregnant women, according to a ...

Intramuscular (IM) injections are used to deliver medication deep into your muscles. Your muscles have lots of blood flowing through them, so medications injected into them are quickly absorbed into ...

Xeris Pharmaceuticals last year snared approval for its first drug, a shelf-stable glucagon injector for hypoglycemia. Now it's deploying its formulation tech to hit another target—epilepsy—and the ...

The FDA approved the first nalmefene hydrochloride auto-injector (Zurnai) for use as an emergency treatment for opioid overdose in adults and children 12 years of age and older, the agency announced ...

Avonex (interferon beta-1a) is a brand-name drug prescribed to treat certain forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in adults. It’s administered via intramuscular injection. The typical Avonex dosage starts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you rely on the lifesaving drug epinephrine for severe allergic reactions, the controversy over high-priced auto-injectors ...