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Top: A printed electrode pattern of the new polymer being stretched to several times of its original length. Bottom: A ...

Penta Group Vietnam team members meet with a patient. Photograph courtesy of Penta Group Vietnam and YEI. A team developing ...

Dahiya poses with a prosthetic hand covered in the solar-powered electronic skin. Photograph courtesy of the University of Glasgow. Engineers ...

Crowdfunding campaigns to pay for medical costs have become a booming industry in recent years, with sites like GoFundMe raising ...

"Surgery of the Future" is a virtual operating room that showcases government-funded technologies being developed to make surgery safer, more ...

Former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Jim Abbott is a model of perseverance despite his disability. Born without a right ...

The Amputee Coalition has designated April as Limb Loss Awareness Month. Throughout the month, events and other activities will increase ...

Clancy tests the hand-wrist prosthesis. Photograph courtesy of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is ...

Image by Iowa State University. If your New Year's resolution was to exercise more in 2017, chances are you've already ...

The Amputee Coalition announced three new scholarships to help reduce or eliminate the financial barriers that can make it impossible ...

Now through April 18, AARP Foundation is providing free tax assistance and preparation through its Tax-Aide program. AARP Foundation Tax-Aide ...

According to research from the University of Missouri (MU), approximately 30 million Americans living with mobility challenges and impairments lack ...

Patients with treatment-resistant, locally advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STS), a malignant cancer of the arms or legs, have typically faced ...

Photograph of Hichert by Jos Wassink, courtesy of TU Delft. Mona Hichert, MSc, a biomechanical engineer and doctoral candidate from ...

About 80 percent of Americans will suffer from back pain at one time or another. A recent study found that ...

Participants are now being enrolled in clinical trials for the final tests on an artificial pancreas developed by the University ...

Albert Shih, PhD, a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering and the lead on the project, displays a 3D-printed AFO. ...

The shoulder-level robotic prosthesis is controlled by a sensor that is placed on the patient's pectoral muscle. Photograph courtesy of ...

The Amputee Coalition is accepting applications for the Scott Decker, MD, Memorial Scholarship and the Christina Skoski, MD, Scholarship for ...

New research from The George Institute for Global Health concludes the weather plays no part in the symptoms associated with ...

The American Diabetes Association (Association) unveiled a new online hub-makeinsulinaffordable.org-as part of its Stand Up for Affordable Insulin Initiative, which ...

A weekly dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor was just as effective at controlling blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes ...

The flexible sensor film (transparent) can measure the temperature of a heating plate (white). In red is a gripping device. ...

OPAF announced that Össur Americas, Foothill Ranch, California, is a 2017 platinum-level sponsor, which is the highest level of sponsorship. ...

The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) Endeavor Games, a nationally recognized multi-sport competition that allows athletes with physical disabilities to ...

Anesthesiologists, emergency physicians, pathologists, and radiologists often charge more than 4 times what Medicare pays for similar services, which may ...

A survey conducted by investigators at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) found that almost ...

Following is a statement from the American Diabetes Association (January 12, 2017): On behalf of the nearly 30 million Americans ...

Microscopic crystals could soon be zipping drugs around your body, taking them to diseased organs. In the past, this was ...

Nurses once again topped the Gallup poll's annual ranking of how Americans view 22 major professions with 84 percent of ...

Before finalizing the prescription of new lower-limb prosthetic device, a clinician often has the patient try the device while he ...

Taking care of another person can be time-consuming and stressful for anyone. At times, you’ll need a break to relieve ...

When it comes to purchasing prescription medicine online, convenience does not outweigh the risks, said Karl Fiebelkorn, MBA, RPh, of the ...

The multifunctional tactile sensor is inspired by human hairy skin structure. Photograph courtesy of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Electronic-skin ...

African-Americans are at higher risk for two diseases-diabetes and peripheral arterial disease (PAD)-that together threaten to cause them more preventable ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation, Austin, Texas, completed its final round of 2016 grants, awarding $225,000 to five non-profit organizations. The ...

Beneficiaries of Medicare who develop cancer and don't have supplemental health insurance incur out-of-pocket expenditures for their treatments averaging one-quarter ...

Ortiz Catalan demonstrates the augmented virtual reality environment in his new Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at Chalmers. Photograph courtesy of ...

The Endocrine Society lauds Novo Nordisk's recent announcement that it would limit price increases for its therapies, including insulin, and ...

A doctoral student shakes hands with an optoelectronically innervated prosthesis. Photograph by Huichan Zhao, courtesy of Cornell. Most robots achieve ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have found a new approach to creating artificial muscle fibers that reproduce some of ...

Although both group and individual therapy can ease post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in active-duty military service members, individual therapy ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) occurs when fat, cholesterol, and other substances accumulate in blood vessels away from the heart, restricting ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released a webinar during which the organization's president ...

By removing the protein galectin-3 (Gal3), a team of investigators led by University of California (UC) School of Medicine researchers ...

Microbiologists have identified how MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) may be more effectively treated by modern antibiotics if they are paired ...

People with diabetes are one step closer to more easily checking their blood glucose levels with a noninvasive device for ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released a special alert providing an analysis of ...

Smart phone apps could offer patients with type 2 diabetes a highly effective method of self-managing their condition, concluded a ...

The BBCIs being developed at CSNE can both record from and stimulate the nervous system. They would also allow the ...