Researchers have developed a new way to connect medications in the body in high doses while reducing the pain caused by injection. This method depends on converting the drug into small crystals that are injected under the skin to form a store of the drug from which treatment is gradually launched for months or years, which eliminates the need for frequent injection.
The study was conducted by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America, published in the “Nature Chemical Engineering” magazine, and wrote about “Eurekalert”.
How does this technique work?
When injecting the drug crystals mixed with a safe organic solvent using a fine needle, these crystals automatically combine a solid stored stored, this store is characterized by its ability to slowly release the medicine, with the ability to control the speed of the freedom of the drug from the store by adding a small amount of analytical polymer.
This technique is characterized by its ability to provide a long -term treatment, as experiments on mice showed the continued release of the drug for 3 months with 85% of the drug remaining in its store, which indicates the possibility of continuing its effect for more than a year, and the store can also be surgically removed if we want to stop the treatment, which makes it a flexible option, in addition to that, the use of thin needles makes the injections less painful and easier.
This technology aims primarily to improve long -term contraceptives, especially in developing countries, where research seeks to provide easy -to -applied options, and it may also be used to treat chronic diseases that require continuous doses, such as HIV, tuberculosis and mental and neurological disorders.
The study team is currently developing this technology to be applicable to humans, by conducting advanced studies, and diseases that can benefit more than this system are evaluated, whether in the field of birth control or treatment of other diseases.
In this simple and effective way, it may be possible to change the ways to give long -term medications and make them more comfortable and less expensive, which opens new horizons in the field of global health care.