While the standard needle size for vaccination is 1 inch, it's recommended that women over 200 lbs. and men over 260 lbs. get shots with 1.5-inch needles. (Getty Images) Most people don’t want to ...

A viral Instagram post claims people who weigh more than 200 pounds need to receive an intramuscular vaccine with a longer needle in order for it to be effective. One VERIFY reader emailed our team to ...

Even if you haven’t gotten your COVID-19 shot yet, you’ve gotten a good look at the needles used to deliver them. We — along with hundreds of other news outlets across the country — use photos and ...

Americans of all shapes and sizes are heading to pharmacies and doctors' offices this fall for flu and Covid shots, but they may not know that size matters when it comes to the needle going into their ...

NEW YORK – Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. In a new study, the researchers report that ...

Most people don’t want to think about the needle part of getting a vaccine any more than they have to — but you might want to start. Your weight may mean that you need a larger needle than you assumed ...