Dr Rituja Ugalmugle, consultant, internal medicine, Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central, said it is “not necessarily” true.

Almost a year after the birth of my second child, my body felt broken. Every virus my kids had, I caught, too, and sleep deprivation, lack of exercise, and a rotten diet—the trifecta experienced by ...

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 and ...

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 (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 ...

Most people know the feeling of getting a shot and having your arm feel sore for several days afterward. Some might even expect it as a side effect. The soreness happens when medications are injected ...

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I take B12 in pill form, but I heard there's a B12 shot my doctor can give. Is that a better option? "It depends on the reason for the deficiency," says Holly Phillips, MD, a primary-care physician in ...

New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens is feeling the heat. A former trainer has said he injected the seven-time Cy Young winner with steroids and human growth hormone, but Clemens says the only ...