Using a tiny needle the size of what a mosquito sticks in you, this new medical breakthrough–straight from Star Trek–blows medicine into your blood without the pain of needles. Even the least ...

Novel needle-free injections that don't cause the pain and bruising common with existing needle-free devices have been developed by a team in California. In a bid to confront the under-use of current ...

The origin of jet injections dates back to the late 1800s when a technique known as aquapuncture was reported in the medical literature 19. This device was used to deliver jets of water and other ...

The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine. But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases evaluated the immunogenicity of a severe acute respiratory ...

Those of us with an aversion to needles can soon go to the doctor with a little less trepidation. That is if a new device developed by a team of MIT researchers becomes available at your local medical ...

Needle-less technology for injecting medicine is nothing new. But, until now, it’s relied on compressed air or gas cartridges to breach the skin and deliver the dosage. A team of medical and ...

Insulin is a hormone that helps your body move sugar from the blood into your tissues. When you have diabetes, your body may not make or use insulin the right way, so you may need to take insulin ...

Nostalgia is a funny thing. One definition is “wistful affection for the past.” But sometimes it seems to mean, “relief after surviving something unpleasant.” Such is the case with the subject of my ...