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Richmond Jack Richmond, CPOA, CFo, has been named president and CEO of the Amputee Coalition. He has been serving as ...

Ted Kaptchuk. Image courtesy of BIDMC. Conventional medical wisdom has long held that placebo effects depend on patients' belief they ...

Aimee Copeland speaks to faculty and staff at UWG. Image courtesy of UWG. When asked whether she would go back ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation has awarded $17,500 to four grant recipients, concluding its third round of 2016 grants. The Foundation ...

Blood testing is the standard option for checking glucose levels, but a new technology described in the journal Advanced Materials ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia, are trialing a new smartphone app that helps people with diabetes ...

Photograph of the memristor chip courtesy of the University of Southampton. Monitoring neuronal cell activity is fundamental to neuroscience and ...

Numerous studies have shown that children with different physical, cognitive, emotional, or learning abilities than their peers are at an ...

Nine-year-old leukemia fighter Ethan Watts accepted the award on behalf of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Image courtesy of the U-M ...

Donna Parks had a sensation of heaviness in her legs for a couple of years-then sharp, stabbing pains began. A ...

Therapeutic patient education (TPE) is a continuous process for chronic disease that enables patients to improve and acquire self-care and ...

UT Dallas scientists produced the fibers in this woven textile by highly twisting nylon sewing thread to produce coiled artificial ...

The published literature describes mobility problems people may experience after undergoing lower-limb amputations, yet there have been few published accounts ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) is accepting applications for its annual Access for Athletes grant though Friday, December 2. Applicants ...

Christian Rask-Madsen, MD, PhD. Image courtesy of Joslin Diabetes Center. Diabetes heightens the risk of vascular damage to heart and ...

Erin Fuse Brown. Image by Meg Buscema, Georgia State University. As Mylan attempts to control bad publicity over its exponential ...

A First Swing participant keeps her eye on the ball as part of her follow through. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) released a webcast during which NAAOP General Counsel Peter ...

Washington State University (WSU) researchers have seen significant increases in the number of Americans who can afford to fill prescriptions ...

Research by Maria Woodward, MD, examines patient attitudes about telemedicine and remote eye exams. Image courtesy of U-M Kellogg Eye ...

A meta-analysis of reports on more than 4,000 patients suggests that almost one in three people discharged from hospital intensive ...

The Distraction in Action app offers parents tips about how to help their child through a medical procedure. Image by ...

A TAP competitor returns the ball. Photograph courtesy of TAP. The city of Uberlandia, Brazil, was the setting for the ...

A study describing the characteristics of two commercially available running-specific prosthetic feet concluded that the specific responsive features of the ...

Wireless, battery-less implantable sensors could improve brain control of prosthetics, avoiding wires that go through the skull. The sensor is ...

Image courtesy of AARP. Family caregiving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, ...

Laura Donlon. Image courtesy of Beaumont Health. According to the National Institutes of Health, 80 percent of adults will experience ...

From left: Christopher Fagundes and Kyle Murdock. Image by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University. Patients' self-rated health is a better long-term predictor ...

Medicare recently announced that the average basic premium for a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan in 2017 is projected ...

A bioengineering doctoral student in the ASU Neural Engineering Lab demonstrates how patients will use the Oculus Rift headset to ...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Hutcheson gardens at his home to gain a sense of purpose. U.S. Army National Guard ...

Group that climbed Cayambe in 2015. Image courtesy of ROMP. On July 24-25, Karl Egloff, an elite athlete and one ...

Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, announced that the winner of its #MyWinningMoment online photo and video contest celebrating the mobility of people ...

Jon Sigurdsson, president and CEO of Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, announced that, due to the overwhelmingly positive response to its #MyWinningMoment ...

The core of the system is the osseointegrated human-machine gateway (OHMG), a bone-anchoring technique developed at Göteborgs Universitet, which is ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation completed its second round of 2016 grants, awarding $127,750 to eight nonprofit organizations that share its ...

Key findings from a study of out-of-pocket costs for hospitalization. Image courtesy of the University of Michigan. Even if you ...

Image courtesy of Laurent Qy Photography. In a recent TEDx Talk in Paris, Jothy Rosenberg, a two-time cancer survivor, amputee, ...

The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) is seeking nominations to its board of directors. Nomination materials must be received ...

Image courtesy of Angel City Games/Tiffany J Photography.> The 2nd Annual Angel City Games will be held July 7-10 at ...

CAF grantee Daniel Stoner mountain biking with his prosthetic leg. Image courtesy of Daniel Stoner. The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) ...

Heather Carter runs laps around an indoor track. Image by Sean Kimmons, Air Force News Service. After a sprint around ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) held its 10th annual A Celebration of Heroes, Heart and Hope Gala on June 8 ...

Lammers takes a breather and some pointers from his coach at the 2016 Department of Defense Warrior Games swimming training ...

A doctoral candidate, Andrew Hodrien, in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Salford, Manchester, England, is seeking ...

Some patients who are in danger of losing an arm or leg due to hardening of the arteries have been ...

Hugh Herr, PhD, associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been given ...

A First Swing particant addresses the ball. Photograph courtesy of OPAF and the First Clinics. Students from the University of ...

Orthopedic surgeons from OrthoCarolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, partnering with the OrthoCarolina Research Institute (OCRI), Charlotte, have completed the first successful ...

The Amputee Coalition's board of directors has elected three new members to the board. Cain Jeffrey J. Cain, MD, a ...