Scientists of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev (NSTU) have created a surgical needle that minimizes damage to stitched tissues and reduces the time of ...

Surgeons are increasingly turning to less-invasive techniques, such as utilizing long, thin needles – instead of scalpels – to access targets within the body. A new needle, with a steerable tip, could ...

EDM lowers the cost and improves the quality of hypodermic needles. Using wire EDMs, Peridot produces complex point geometries on these minimally invasive surgical needles. This Mitsubishi FA10 wire ...

Current Surgical earned $3.2 million to create a 'smart needle' to treat malignant tumors. National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Current Surgical, a medical device developer based in Washington, DC, ...

To evaluate the role and efficacy of portable X-ray in reliably identifying retained suture needles in ophthalmologic surgical cases. Ophthalmologic 10−0 nylon suture needles were placed into 10 of 20 ...