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Irish researchers report that medical injections in the butt are becoming more problematic<\/a> because — well — folk’s butts are getting fatter in the Western world, and the needles — well — don’t go in deep enough.<\/p>\n

They recommend, logically, longer needles.<\/p>\n

(via NPR and J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irish researchers report that medical injections in the butt are becoming more problematic because — well — folk’s butts are getting fatter in the Western world, and the needles –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8889,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/paging_dr_mccoy.html","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":0},"title":"Paging Dr. McCoy …","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Mar-06 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of recent and ongoing developments in finding ways other than needles to administer medicine. 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