In pediatric settings, care bundles for needle procedures such as lidocaine administration and comfort positioning can significantly reduce pain. Needles don't have to hurt a child. In 2014, ...

For every child who has squirmed and cried over a shot or a blood draw — and every parent who has stood by helplessly — doctors at Children's Minnesota hospitals are reporting success in a campaign to ...

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 ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email Pain--a simple four-lettered word that complicates people's lives every day. According to the Centers for Disease ...

ROANOKE, Va. – One of the most dreaded parts of being in a hospital for most patients is needles. This is especially true if you need your blood drawn multiple times during a stay, which is often the ...

Velano Vascular has been working with several health systems on pilot programs and clinical studies of its needle-free blood draw device. Now, Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Healthcare is the first to ...

LAS VEGAS — A new and virtually painless way to draw blood for lab testing has the potential to replace the more than 400 million needle blood draws performed each year in the United States. The Touch ...

UH is the first health system in Ohio to use this device for patients and is helping to pioneer a bold national movement to adopt a more humane standard of care for blood draws. “As an institution, we ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is implementing a needle-free technology to improve the blood draw experience for inpatients across its 22 hospitals. The implementation stems from a ...

Pain--a simple four-lettered word that complicates people's lives every day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Chronic pain affected about 20 percent of the U.S. adults in ...