Sometimes, the treatment sounds worse than the disease. First a patient places it over their eye, like a contact lens, causing their eye fluid to dissolve the material between the patch’s base and its ...

We've already heard about "microneedle" patches that near-painlessly deliver medication through the skin. Well, scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have now taken the same ...

Ommetaphobics, look away. If the idea of something touching your eye makes you a bit queasy, you certainly won’t like a medical innovation involving a robot, a needle, and your retinal vein. All the ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...