Autoclaves, which are used to sterilize medical tools, require a steady supply of hot, pressurized steam. Researchers have come up with a way to generate that steam passively, using just the power of ...

In the past few months, 11 people in Los Angeles who underwent surgical procedures using a device called a duodenoscope got sick---infected with a so-called superbug called CRE, carbapenem-resistant ...

The history of the hypodermic needle might make you wince. The first hypodermic needles looked nothing like the thin, sleek syringes of today. They were long, thick, pointed metal that would terrify ...

Decorative scrolls in the scalpel handle found among the Roman medical tools, London, United Kingdom EXETER, ENGLAND—Newsweek reports that researchers led by Rebecca Flemming of the University of ...

An invention called the solarclave could help prevent the millions of annual infections that result from improperly cleaned medical equipment. Photo by Oara Neumann The autoclave—a device that ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have unearthed a 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, including forceps and scalpels. They think the tools belonged to a physician from the Roman Empire who had ...

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Army Reserve units from the 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support) recently received approximately $1.7 million worth of medical equipment in a recent issue by the U.S. Army ...