MIT scientists have developed a new wearable patch that can deliver drugs through the skin more efficiently and painlessly. The device uses pulses of ultrasound to pry open the skin, which could ...

More than 90% of infants received full protection from measles and 100% from rubella after receiving a single vaccine patch The patches bear microscopic needles that painlessly penetrate the skin and ...

An innovative new skin patch that painlessly delivers drugs to the body could see the end of medical needles and jabs. The ‘microneedle’ patch developed by scientists at the University of Bath ...

Move over needles, there's a new drug delivery method in town, and it's way cooler than anything you've ever seen! In a groundbreaking study, scientists from MIT have developed a wearable patch that ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The skin is an appealing route for drug delivery because it allows drugs to go directly to the site where they’re needed, which could be useful for wound healing, pain relief, or other ...

A McGill University research team has developed a painless, automated way to deliver in vitro fertilization (IVF) hormones using a light-activated microneedle patch, an innovation that could ease one ...

Getting your blood drawn can be uncomfortable. Yet for decades, it’s been the go-to method for checking what’s happening inside your body. Researchers at North Carolina State University and the ...