[48 hours ago)..."It has been taken for granted that once the needle introduces the medicine, it is going to be absorbed and do its job," said Victoria O. Chan, the lead investigator of the study. "But the majority of medicine never reached the muscle."
Scientists used a CAT scan to follow intramuscular injections in 50 patients, half men and half women, of different sizes and shapes, and found that, on average, almost 70 percent of the dose did not get through the derriere's fatty tissue to reach the muscle."MORE