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 ...

To inject hCG correctly, pinch the skin for a cutaneous injection or stretch it for an intramuscular one. Push the needle in gently and slowly release the plunger, waiting at least 10 seconds before ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I give my wife an octreotide intramuscular injection monthly into the gluteal muscle. I was taught to pull back on the needle to be sure you aren't in a blood vessel. Sometimes, I am ...

We’ve all seen the video and pictures over the past three weeks of people receiving the pandemic-altering vaccines into their upper arms, and that’s where the COVID-19 vaccine goes, straight into the ...

In a recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers evaluated the prophylactic immune protection conferred by a single intramuscular (I.M.) injection of adintrevimab (ADG20) ...

Common immunization routes for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine candidates range from intramuscular, nasal and oral to intradermal. Now, scientists at the University of Salzburg and Pantec ...