A wearable system designed to assist navigation for blind and partially sighted people is presented in a study published in ...

The center is focused on improving the quality of life of persons who have medical prostheses by developing and implementing technologies to prevent or treat infection. Primary areas of work of the ...

The recent call by Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead for improved access to advanced prosthetics within the National Health Service (NHS) underscores a critical issue in sports and rehabilitation: ...

Finding that information was frustrating. It felt like I was being punished for two things: for being an older adult under ...

Prosthetics funding is a key election issue for face and neck cancer survivors whose prostheses are not currently covered by ...

Taking prescription sleep medications within 90 days of knee replacement surgery may be linked to dislocations of the ...

Medicare can cover the cost of breast prostheses following a mastectomy. If a person chooses a surgically implanted prosthesis, Medicare Part A can generally cover it when the surgery occurs in an ...

Examples of biomedical materials are prostheses, reconstituted tissues and intravenous catheters. An inhalable nanoplatform responds to inflamed lung tissues by self-assembling into catalytically ...

The biomechanical and metabolic effects of lower limb prostheses and exoskeletons on walking, running, hopping, jumping, bicycling, and sprinting. The requirements for undergraduate students who would ...

Medications that help patients sleep linked to more falls, fractures, and other problems after joint procedures, a study ...

Macrotexturised and polyurethane prostheses were banned in France in 2019 because they were associated with cases of a rare ...

Early pioneers, such as double-leg amputee Sepp Zwicknagl from Austria, experimented with skiing using prostheses. Other innovations were seen in ski equipment design, such as three-track skiing using ...