“The gel is easy to administer, requires no open surgery, and is an easy procedure for the patient.” Of course, this first trial was small, and 20 patients isn’t enough to make any big ...

Following injection of an occlusive nonhormonal hydrogel into the vas, sperm concentration decreased by as much as 99.98% by day 14 in the first six men who underwent the procedure. After 30 days ...

The highly compressible hydrogel is engineered outside the body and then injected by a needle. The advantage is a minimally invasive procedure to place the material where it is needed. The magic trick ...

Patients were sedated for the procedure, and the gel was heated to become a thick liquid. Guided by fluoroscopic imaging, researchers used a 17-gauge needle to inject the gel directly into the ...

Today, the company announced that surgeons in Australia have safely performed the procedure on 23 men in an early-stage trial. The approach uses a soft, water-based substance called a hydrogel ...

Hydrogels have a variety of use cases ... But once implanted in the fallopian tubes as part of a non-surgical procedure using a hysteroscope -- an instrument for inspecting the uterine cavity ...

The 30-minute hydrogel procedure was also much faster than a typical cornea transplant, which can take several hours. Patients in the clinical trial used immunosuppressive eyedrops for just eight ...

Now Johns Hopkins scientists have pioneered a new color-changing hydrogel that could reduce complications from cataract surgery, one of the world's most commonly performed procedures. During ...