MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector

The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.

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.

by Ted Burnham

Full Story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/25/153697885/mit-builds-a-needle-free-drug-injector