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Amputee Pilots Discover Peace, Freedom in the Skies
Able Flight offers free flight training for amputees and other people with disabilities. Becoming a pilot builds participants' confidence and ...
Paid Market Research Study Seeks Participants
A major national beverage company seeks input to improve its product for customers with mobility and/or dexterity challenges. This is ...
Can Artificial Intelligence Prevent Amputations?
A wave of emerging research indicates that artificial intelligence may help doctors recognize PAD-related limb-loss risk factors with greater speed, ...
This Amputee Is Surviving, and Thriving, After Sepsis
Like so many victims of sepsis, Torie Mugo didn’t recognize the symptoms and nearly waited too long to get medical ...
BionicM Speeds the Race Toward Powered Prosthetic Legs
Tokyo-based BionicM isn't well recognized within the United States, but its new powered prosthetic leg for amputees might be a ...
Amputee Characters Remain Glaringly Absent from Top Movies
Despite many recent triumphs, limb difference and other forms of disability remain badly underrepresented in popular entertainment. That’s the finding ...
Amputee Rises to Challenge, Earns Airborne Wings
A U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) soldier became the first soldier with a lower-leg amputation to successfully earn his Airborne ...
Engineer Applies Robot Control Theory to Improve Prosthetic Legs
A University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) professor applied robot control theory to enable powered lower-limb prostheses to dynamically ...
House of Representatives Passes the ABLE Act
On December 3, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 404-17 to pass H.R. 647, the Achieving a Better Life Experience ...
OPAF Welcomes New Board Members
The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) has welcomed new officers and board members for fiscal year 2014-2015, as follows: ...
