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3-D Printing During Surgery, the BioPen
Biopen
“[A] new BioPen developed at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia . . . . is designed to let [MORE]
World’s Smallest Pacemaker
Micra Transcatheter Pacing System
Cardiac surgeons at Southampton General Hospital (UK) used a catheter to thread a pill-sized pacemaker through the [MORE]
Brain Stimulators for Military Use
Brain Machine
Brain-implanted devices are gaining traction in part because so many soldiers in recent wars have sustained limb loss or [MORE]
Multi-Test Lab-on-a-Chip
Multi Lab-on-a Chip
This piece announces computer aided design software, developed at Michigan Technological University, which is a necessary step before [MORE]
Stroke Map for Telemedicine
Stroke Map
Health demographers at the University of Pennsylvania have mapped out the geography of annual stroke incidence (800,000) and mortality [MORE]
3-D Printing Models Chest Cavity for Unusual Lung Transplant
Living Donor Lung Transplant – 3D Printing
In an astonishingly complicated procedure, surgeons at Kyoto University Hospital used a 3-D [MORE]
Comparing Robots
Honda's Asimo
Before you conclude that humanoid robots are a passing fancy (much like railroad executives thought of the automobile in [MORE]