Stryker 3D printed knee
The medical device company, Stryker (Kalamazoo, MI), has a 3D printing factory in Cork, Ireland that hums [MORE]
Knee implant sensor
Wear and tear on artificial knees can damage a prosthetic just as they do in injured or older [MORE]
Adjustable length artificial hip
Hip prostheses can result in a leg that is a little too long or a little too [MORE]
IMPRESS microchip
Heart pacemakers evolved from a cart-platform the patient pushed around, to a wearable necklace, and, in 1958 to a [MORE]
Micromo Faulhaber Bebionic Hand
“The Bebionic myoelectric prosthesis weighs about as much as a natural hand (0.88 – 1.32 lbs) and [MORE]
Electronic Skin
The chief aim with malleable, self-healing, recyclable electronic skin is to improve prosthetics (e.g. better surface control of microbes) [MORE]
Bone Fracture
A research group in Barcelona Spain has observed that tiny bone fractures emit a low voltage electrical field that [MORE]
Ultrasound Prosthetic Fingers
Georgia Tech engineers have used an ultrasound detector to produce a prosthetic hand with high resolution electromyography. They [MORE]
Smart Prosthetics (MOIP)
To address the needs of military amputees, the Naval Research Lab and collaborators have created a smart artificial [MORE]
Johns Hopkins Biosensor for Brain Injury
Wearable, implantable and ingestible biosensors are the devices that make precision medicine more precise. In [MORE]
Hip Prosthesis
Last summer, D. A. Henderson, who led WHO’s Smallpox Eradication Campaign, died from a MRSA infection following a prosthetic [MORE]
3D Printing Wake Forest Ear
Over the past year, the six of the seven innovations in 3-D printing and 3-D printers [MORE]
Ossur Mind Control Limb
The Icelandic prosthetic company Ossur has announced what might be the next generation for artificial limbs. According [MORE]
Orthopedic Hand Prosthesis with Feeling
Several of these seven orthopedic breakthroughs have been in Tagline earlier, but here is a recapitulation: [MORE]