Engineers from EPFL and the University of Strasbourg have developed an innovative surgical needle whose trajectory can be corrected on the fly, thanks to a flexible tip controlled with a simple button ...

While intravenous needles need to be rigid in order to pierce the skin, that rigidity sometimes causes damage to the veins. A new needle addresses that issue by softening upon insertion into the ...

Uroplasty, Inc., based in Minnetonka, Minn., has introduced a newly designed endoscopic injection needle that can be used in conjunction with the system used to inject Macroplastique. Also a Uroplasty ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered a way of improving the accuracy of medical needle-use in surgical simulation. Their breakthrough, the details of which have been published in ...

A medical robot can guide a flexible needle through the lungs of living pigs without direct human control. Over several additional tests on lungs removed from the pigs, the robot placed the needle ...