Do you hate needles too?

It’s coming, but not soon enough for many of us! What I’m talking about is the Aradigm needle-free injection system, called Intraject. The Intraject system is placed against the skin, and *swoosh*, just like in Star Trek’s sick bay (except faster – Intraject takes less than a tenth of a second) you’ve got your medication.

For certain medications, Imitrex included, the faster the better. When you feel that migraine coming on, the sooner you can get the abortive medication into your system, the sooner it can stop the symptoms.

The early trials are very promising, but the bulk of the trials are still coming up later in 2005, and the company doesn’t expect to launch the product until 2007. Right now the company is selling stocks to raise money for the rest of the research and the launch. For those with cluster headaches and migraine, I’m sure 2007 won’t be soon enough.

Visit the official website of Aradigm here to find out more, and to see pictures of the unit in action.