Tag: Spotlight on Books

Can an amputee be well-known and well-adjusted? Asked and answered in Semi-Famous, Josh Sundquist's new book about the perks and ...

Amputee characters are more common than ever in popular fiction, and the books are flying off the shelves. Why do ...

“Amputee fiction” isn’t a genre yet, but it’s a growing trend. These five books with amputee protagonists are all suitable ...

Christa Couture's book isn’t only about limb loss, but it will resonate with anyone who’s lost a limb, as Couture ...

What are this year's best holiday gifts for amputees? We asked around to find out what books, gadgets, clothes, fitness ...

Researchers at University College London, England, and Tel Aviv University, Israel, have discovered that people who use their feet like ...

Researchers at Purdue University have developed an electronic glove, or e-glove, that can be worn over a hand prosthesis to ...

In a paper published in July in the journal Neuron, Krishna Shenoy, PhD, and a team of neuroscientists at Stanford ...

Needing to ride in a wheelchair can put the brakes on myriad opportunities–some less obvious than one might think. New ...

Adult survivors of childhood cancer should be screened for financial problems that might cause them to delay or skip medical ...

Heating the polymer allowed the e-whiskers to rise and become three-dimensional. Photograph courtesy of UT Dallas. Researchers at the University of ...

A team of engineers at Johns Hopkins University has created an electronic skin that will enable individuals with amputations to ...

Researchers at Stanford University and Seoul National University, Korea, have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the ...

Researchers placed EMG sensors on the forearms of able-bodied volunteers, tracking neuromuscular signals as they performed various actions.Photograph courtesy of ...

Physician satisfaction scores on online third-party review sites tend to be skewed and can easily mislead patients, according to a ...

A sudden loss of net worth in middle or older age is associated with a significantly higher risk of death, ...

Civilians and military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reap long-term benefits from psychotherapies used for short-term treatment, according to ...

Adults who have undergone successful cancer treatment years or decades ago become fatigued more quickly than their peers who don't ...

Weight training or cardio? For older adults trying to slim down, pumping iron might be the way to go. Photograph ...

Adding notes to their personal medical charts—a task typically handled only by medical professionals—may help patients feel more involved with ...

People may be more likely to stick to exercise if they walk in groups, according to a paper published in ...

An open-access case study, published January 3 in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, addressed the prosthetic needs of a forensic pathologist who ...

Although adult coloring books can reduce stress and are often advertised as art therapy, art therapists contend that such a ...

Retail prices for 768 prescription drugs commonly used by older adults increased by an average of 6.4 percent in 2015, ...

Education is the key to getting patients to share their medical records electronically with healthcare providers, according to a study ...

While substantial research has established the importance of doctor-patient relationships in facilitating the healing process, few studies have explored patients' ...

Americans extol price shopping for healthcare, yet few actually do it when given the means to, according to the findings ...

Despite growing data that more advanced technology reduces falls and improves physical capabilities among patients with transfemoral amputations, patients with ...

A new surgical technique devised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers could allow prosthetic limbs to feel more like ...

Simple calf muscle stretching may reduce leg pain when walking and increase blood flow for people with peripheral artery disease ...

Columbia University researchers have developed a personalized algorithm that predicts the impact of particular foods on an individual's blood sugar ...

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

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

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

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 ...

People with diabetes often contend with wounds that heal poorly and can sometimes lead to amputation. Researchers at the Max ...

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

An intact, live acorn worm. The head is on the far left. Photograph by Shawn Luttrell, courtesy of the University ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acupuncture may be a viable low-risk, nontoxic option for pain management for pediatric patients who have complex medical conditions, according ...

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 ...