Neuroscience
Helping make brain surgery safer
A biopsy needle that can help surgeons identify and avoid blood vessels in the brain during surgery has undergone initial tests in humans.
Dec 19, 2018
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News tagged with needles
Medical research
Test to save patients from invasive open biopsies
University of Queensland researchers are developing diagnostic tests for a genetic condition which can cause the body to fatally overheat while under a general anaesthetic.
Jul 23, 2018
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Medical research
Looking to mosquitos for a way to develop painless microneedles
A mosquito can insert a needle-like probe into your skin and draw blood for several minutes without you even noticing.
Jun 25, 2018
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Cardiology
Bioengineering students develop add-on pad to make defibrillators more effective
The skin presents a formidable barrier to life-saving defibrillators, but a team of students from Rice University believes it has found a way around that problem.
Apr 13, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study looks at needles in treatment for shoulder pain
According to a new study published online in the journal Radiology, the type of procedure used to treat shoulder calcifications should be tailored to the type of calcification. The results of the study will help interventional ...
Jun 14, 2017
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Neuroscience
Engineers can take pictures of the brain with surgical needle and laser light
With just an inexpensive micro-thin surgical needle and laser light, University of Utah engineers have discovered a minimally invasive, inexpensive way to take high-resolution pictures of an animal brain, a process that also ...
Mar 20, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Needles that hit the right mark
More than 13 million pain-blocking epidural procedures are performed every year in the United States. Although epidurals are generally regarded as safe, there are complications in up to 10 percent of cases, in which the needles ...
Aug 12, 2016
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Medications
Measles vaccine given with a microneedle patch could boost immunization programs
Measles vaccine given with painless and easy-to-administer microneedle patches can immunize against measles at least as well as vaccine given with conventional hypodermic needles, according to research done by the Georgia ...
Nov 27, 2012
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HIV & AIDS
'Vampire facials' were linked to cases of HIV. Here's what to know about the beauty treatment
Three women were diagnosed with HIV after getting "vampire facial" procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report last week, marking the first documented ...
Apr 29, 2024
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Pediatrics
Needle pain is a big problem for kids: One California doctor has a plan
Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor's office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks them with one vaccine after ...
Mar 26, 2024
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