WASHINGTON, D.C.: Effective vaccines, without the needle: since the start of the Covid pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionize medicine.

The technique could help save children's tears at doctors' offices and help people who have a phobia of syringes.

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