Researchers at Tufts University are experimenting with smart thread sutures that could provide electronic feedback to recovering patients. The paper, entitled “A toolkit of thread-based microfluidics, ...

A nanofibre thread designed for use in medical sutures could enter clinical trials later this year in surgery to repair injured shoulders. The thread, known as Bioyarn, has been developed by ...

Sutures have seen some developments since their first reported use back in 3000 B.C. Egypt. Bone and silver needles have been replaced with steel. Silk and animal hair threads have been swapped for ...

A doctor at a health facility in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam has recently used thread to sew his patient’s wound given a dearth of surgical sutures. On the night of July 23, Nguyen ...

A major healthcare manufacturer of hospital supplies introduced a new kind of device for surgical closure: a liquid suture. It had significant advances over thread sutures: it was just as strong, ...

Mitek Sports Medicine announced the launch of the Healix 3.4-mm Suture Anchor and the double-loaded minimally invasive partial thickness rotator cuff repair system as part of its Healix Transtend ...