A device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle has been developed by MIT researchers. The device can be programmed to deliver a ...

THE increased use of antibiotic therapy as well as other medications and fluids administered by hypodermic injection has raised the question of the effectiveness and practicality of employing cold to ...

With coronavirus vaccines currently being administered around the country, it feels appropriate to remember the Irishman who pioneered the hypodermic needle. Born in 1801, Francis Rynd was a Dublin ...

When it comes to safer, less painful, slow-release alternatives to the hypodermic injection of medications, "microneedle patches" show a lot of promise. Now, MIT scientists have adapted the technology ...

Although a technology known as electroporation is very effective at delivering DNA-based vaccines, the required equipment tends to be bulky, complex and expensive. Now, however, scientists have shown ...

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Next month every one of the 300,000 Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees who is willing will get a hypodermic injection in his arm. In consequence it is hoped that no more than 300 of them will ...