Engineers from EPFL and the University of Strasbourg have developed an innovative surgical needle whose trajectory can be corrected on the fly, thanks to a flexible tip controlled with a simple button ...

D.C.-based Current Surgical this week announced a $3.2 million seed. The round, which brings the firm’s total raise up to $4 million, was led by True Ventures and features 1517 Fund and SciFounders.

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, ...

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 ...

A Thai woman, who endured 20 years of pain after childbirth, discovered a needle lodged in her vagina. A doctor's initial attempt to remove it failed, and subsequent surgeries have been delayed due to ...

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 ...

Surgical biopsy was the “gold standard” for breast diagnosis before the early 1990s, when most patients with breast cancer presented with clinical symptoms and were referred to surgeons for diagnostic ...