No one likes getting pricked with a needle, but new bio-inspired microneedle—featuring protruding barbs found in certain stinging creatures in the animal kingdom—could at least make the unpleasant ...

Until a judge told them to stop last week, penal authorities in Arkansas planned to kill seven people in 11 days. All seven were convicted of horrible crimes and sentenced to die by the state; put ...

A protein naturally present in our joints could prove to be an ally against osteoarthritis. South Korean researchers have ...

For those of us who cringe at the sight of needles, there may someday be a less daunting alternative to getting a shot: swallowing a pill-sized device that delivers medication by painlessly pricking ...

Samuel Stupp didn't expect many surprises inside his lab after a 40-year career as a scientist. But something magical happened recently: His research team at Northwestern University developed an ...

It might be the next best thing to a coronavirus vaccine. Scientists have devised a way to use the antibody-rich blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors for an upper-arm injection that they say could ...

Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with control groups, according to new research.

Injections of an immune system protein can alleviate skin problems in people with psoriasis, a German-Dutch research team reports. The well-tolerated protein, called interleukin-4, works as well as a ...

A one-time shot with an experimental drug halved COVID-19 patients' risk of being hospitalized with the illness compared with a placebo, a late-stage trial shows. However, the treatment may still be ...