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Microneedle Offers Painless Solution to Injections Injections are no fun, regardless of what some might say, but that could soon change with the invention of the painless 'microneedle', a device that works much in the same way as the needle of mosquitoes while sucking blood. In the case of the aforementioned insects, the whole process consists of blood bein... 18 July 2008 05:07 GMT Acupuncture: 4 Millennia of Chinese Efficiency If you want to avoid traditional medicine and the inherent mounds of drugs, this is an alternative. Acupuncture refers to a group of techniques, employing very thin, small needles introduced in some precise body parts for achieving a therapeutic answer. Its efficiency seems to be given by the fact that it causes the ... 3 April 2008 09:53 GMT Chinese Woman Carried Inside Her Body 26 Sewing Needles for 31 Years! She can consider herself lucky because had she been conceived in these times, her mother would have had an abortion. Chinese doctors have found 26 sewing needles inside the body of Luo Cuifen, a 31-year-old woman. They suspect they were inserted into the woman's body when she was a newborn by her grandparents be... 7 September 2007 16:56 GMT