A nine-year-old girl in Mumbai has died from rabies nearly six months after being scratched by a stray dog. Kashish Sahani, a Class 4 student, skipped the anti-rabies vaccine due to fear of injections ...

A fear of injections can affect an individual’s health and prevent them from getting important vaccinations. Counseling and other therapies may help a person manage or overcome trypanophobia.

A fear of needles for those who must get medication delivered by injection can go one of two ways -- facing the moments of fear and getting through it, or avoiding the whole thing altogether. But when ...

Trypa-what? Trypanophobia? If you've ever tried to search for "needle phobia" or "fear of shots," you've probably come across some very odd and confusing terms. But this condition is very real, and a ...

Many people are frightened of needles because they have learned to associate discomfort with immunizations or blood draws. In fact, fear of needles affects the majority of children under 11, 20 to 50 ...

Tomophobia is a rare phobia of medical procedures and surgery. It is a specific type of phobia — a fear of a particular trigger that leads to an out-of-proportion reaction in people with the condition ...