A newly developed vaccination patch could signal an end to the need for painful needles injections, US researchers said on Monday.<br /><br />But the potential significance of the technique goes much further than avoiding uncomfortable jabs. <br /><br />The new patches could make life-saving healthcare available for the first time for millions of people in developing countries. <br /><br />Mark Prausnitz , a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the leading researcher on the project, talked with Al Jazeera about how the patch could eventually help wipe out some fatal diseases.<br /><br />[July 19, 2010]
