The ultrathin films are able to be injected using minimally-invasive syringe needles and can be used as a platform to deliver molecular and cellular drugs. The use of shape-memory polymer also enables ...

Syringe-injectable biomaterials, medical devices and engineered tissues have attracted great attention as minimally-invasive implants for diagnosis, therapy and regenerative medicine. Free-standing ...

MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug formulations that are too viscous to be injected using conventional medical syringes. The technology, which is ...

Swallow the wrong microbe, and you might end up in the hospital with a needle or two in your arm — and plenty of itty-bitty bacterial needles poking at you from the inside. That’s because many ...

Clients and volunteers in a parking lot in Cedar Rapids gather around boxes of supplies that include an overdose reversal drug, books about safe injection practices, fentanyl test strips, housing ...

Recent research from the Yale School of Public Health indicates that a widely accepted strategy to decrease the transmission of the hepatitis C virus through needles may not be as effective as hoped.