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 ...

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop evaluation standards and measurements to assess the impacts of medical tools that use artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...