Needles are usually seen as a necessary evil, but maybe they don't have to be. Plenty of painless alternatives are in the works, like microneedle patches, a laser-based device that pushes drugs ...

A new device delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle. MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of ...

Results of intradermal tuberculin skin tests using hypodermic jet equipment were compared with results obtained by the standard Mantoux needle-syringe technique in a study of 1,478 Vietnamese mental ...

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 ...