{"60106":{"#nid":"60106","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Patch heralds new era in battle against pandemics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA revolutionary way of vaccinating against infectious diseases has been invented by scientists who have developed a skin patch containing an influenza vaccine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe patch does away with needles and syringes and could transform the battle against future pandemics by painlessly inoculating patients with vaccines that could be sent out in the post and self-administered in the home by somebody with no medical experience. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the developing world, the skin patches could eliminate the need for the costly medical infrastructure of mass-vaccination campaigns, which require trained medical personnel to inject vaccines, and expensive storage equipment. Skin patches also bypass the hazards of dirty needles. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe skin patch is \u0022armed\u0022 with an array of microscopic needles made of biodegradable plastic that painlessly scratch the surface of the skin and dissolve harmlessly without trace after delivering the vaccine safely inside the body.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view full article, visit URL below: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/patch-heralds-new-era-in-battle-against-pandemics-2029750.html\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/patch-heralds-new-era-in-battle-against-pandemics-2029750.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/patch-heralds-new-era-in-battl...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A revolutionary way of vaccinating against infectious diseases has been invented by scientists who have developed a skin patch containing an influenza vaccine.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Scientists unveil an innovative and cheap method of delivering v"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2010-07-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60107":{"id":"60107","type":"image","title":"Prof. Mark Prausnitz","body":null,"created":"1449176253","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:33","changed":"1475894520","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:00"}},"media_ids":["60107"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"495","name":"Mark Prausnitz"},{"id":"7496","name":"microneedles"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}