Tag: Science & Technology

In another demonstration of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, a woman with quadriplegia used just her thoughts to shape the hand ...

During the holiday season, caregivers can become overwhelmed by their already busy schedules. In fact, a study by the Massachusetts ...

The prosthetic skin attached to a prosthetic hand. Photograph courtesy of Jaemin Kim, Seoul National University, Korea. Researchers in South ...

Using data points at four, eight, and 12 months after discharge from rehabilitation, a team of researchers from Australia conducted ...

A University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) professor applied robot control theory to enable powered lower-limb prostheses to dynamically ...

On November 24, National Disability Institute (NDI) Executive Director Michael Morris issued the following statement on the Achieving a Better ...

Photograph courtesy of NC State University. Powered lower-limb prosthetic devices hold promise for improving the mobility of amputees, but errors ...

The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, is the first in the United States to use the only FDA-approved, drug-coated balloon, ...

Researchers in the Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Cybernetics group at Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), Albuquerque, New Mexico, have developed a ...

A team of international researchers said that while advances have been made to make prosthetic hands and fingers look real ...

Image of the bubble actuator, embedded in a liner, that the UT Arlington research team is designing and building, courtesy ...

Ortiz Catalan (left) and Brånemark (right) with the first patient treated with the osseointegrated implant system for neural control. Photographs ...

Researchers with the Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center at Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (Cleveland VA), Ohio, and at ...

A team that includes U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers is developing a new prosthetic foot that will give ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, are continuing to seek volunteers to take an online survey relating to ...

New research by biomedical engineers at the University of Minnesota (U of M), Minneapolis, shows that people who practice yoga ...

Retired Marine Cpl. Alex Minsky's life took an unexpected turn this year as he sat on a couch next to ...

As they approached their golden years, one problem Philip and Ruth Barash didn't foresee was having to struggle through their ...

Study Finds Little Difference in Effectiveness between Branded Diets Amputees who have an increased risk for weight gain because of ...

Several nationally recognized organizations are coming together to sponsor a full-day conference that will highlight and mainstream the work of ...

An Indiana University (IU) Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, master's of business administration (MBA) graduate has been named the winner ...

R&D Magazine announced that Hugh Herr, PhD, is the winner of its 14th Innovator of the Year Award. The award ...

Dudley S. Childress, PhD, passed away on August 6, after a long illness. He was 79. Childress was born on ...

New Training Program Prepares Veterans, Others to Enter Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Grabianowski at the DOE Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. He is ...

Illustration of the IMES System courtesy of The Alfred Mann Foundation. When a muscles contracts, it generates electricity. This electrical ...

Adults with a disability are more likely to be obese or extremely obese than those without a disability, according to ...

A researcher from TSRHC's Movement Science Laboratory times a camper's as she runs. Photography courtesy of the Dallas Zoo. Children ...

"A good doctor-patient relationship is essential to achieving the best possible care, but the reality is, most doctors have less ...

Studies Show More Sprawl Associated with Higher Incidence of Poor Health Outcomes Posted June 24, 2014 People who live in ...

Posted June 19, 2014 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, held a ...

Photograph courtesy of the Amputee Coalition. Posted April 24, 2014 The Amputee Coalition has elected Miles O'Brien, a veteran freelance ...

Image courtesy of NCCR Robotics. Posted March 27, 2014 The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics, Lausanne, ...

Posted February 28, 2014 Max Ortiz Catalan, a doctoral student in the biomedical signals and systems research group at Chalmers ...

Posted November 19, 2014 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has initiated the Prosthetics Patch 101 Program with the ...