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But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free.
The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. "It's sort of like a laser beam," project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots.
But because the jet is so thin — he compares it to a mosquito's proboscis — it's unlikely to produce much pain. Details of the prototype are published in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics.
Get Set: A Jet To Replace Needles For Injections : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Puncture (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia this movie showcased that the pharma industry might kill such a product easily simply because it kills their revenue model.
But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free.
The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. "It's sort of like a laser beam," project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots.
But because the jet is so thin — he compares it to a mosquito's proboscis — it's unlikely to produce much pain. Details of the prototype are published in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics.
Get Set: A Jet To Replace Needles For Injections : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Puncture (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia this movie showcased that the pharma industry might kill such a product easily simply because it kills their revenue model.