The world’s thinnest surgical needles have a diameter of 0.03 millimeters and are just 0.8 mm long. And the thread they pull is so fine, at 0.012 mm in diameter, that it is invisible to the naked eye.

You may not want to face this fact if you’re afraid of needles, but it’s a simple truth: In the course of treating the spectrum of human medical conditions, doctors are often forced to stick large ...

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 ...

RENO, NV / ACCESSWIRE / October 11, 2022 / Melzi Surgical ("Melzi" or the "Company"), a surgical device company dedicated to creating innovative technologies that improve patient outcomes while ...

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, ...

“When it comes to the way they handle medical tools and devices, Japanese doctors really are number one in the world,” says Takai Toshihide, President and CEO of MANI, which makes world-renowned ...

With just an inexpensive micro-thin surgical needle and laser light, engineers have discovered a minimally invasive, inexpensive way to take high-resolution pictures of an animal brain, a process that ...

Episode 3 of our new podcast: the story of the blood-sucking pest and a pain-free surgical needle. Scientists have been studying the mosquito’s mouthparts. Could the dreaded ‘prick’ of a needle soon ...

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 ...

Episode 3 of our new podcast: the story of the blood-sucking pest and a pain-free surgical needle. Scientists have been studying the mosquito’s mouthparts. Could the dreaded ‘prick’ of a needle soon ...