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Second Sight receives $1.6 million grant for development of Orion cortical visual prosthesis
The National Institutes of Health has granted Second Sight Medical Products a $1.6 million grant in order to fund the early feasibility clinical trial of a visual cortical...
2 days ago - Healio
Audit of penile prosthesis insertion for management of prolonged ischaemic priapism in a tertiary referral centre
Aim: Ischaemic priapism is an emergency requiring prompt step wise treatment. Erectile dysfunction following detumescence is common. Priapism lasting > 48hrs causes complete ED...
1 month ago - International Journal of Surgery
Scientists trick the brain to embody the prosthetic limb
The famous idiom "seeing is believing" is not enough to help amputees with the use of their prosthetic limb. Many amputees opt out of prolonged use of their prosthetic limb...
1 month ago - News Medical
Robotic Nipple Sparing Mastectomy and immediate Breast Reconstruction with Robotic Latissimus Dorsi Flap Harvest - Technique and preliminary results
Robotic nipple sparing mastectomy was associated with promising cosmetic outcomes. Robotic surgical platforms were also successfully applied in the field of breast...
1 month ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
People with artificial hands are doing damage to their intact limbs
Salford University scientists led the trial, which fitted electronic sensors to prosthesis users. The results of the research were published in the journal Scientific Reports.
1 month ago - Daily Mail
New techniques reveal how prosthesis users are doing damage to their intact limbs
RESEARCHERS from the University of Salford have used new techniques to show that people with artificial arms and hands are doing damage to their intact limbs.
1 month ago - News Medical
Ankles with varus, valgus or neutral alignment had similar outcomes after ankle arthroplasty
Results published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery showed patients with either varus or valgus malalignment of the coronal plane tibiotalar angle who underwent...
1 month ago - Healio
SUSU scientists develop Russian analog of voice prostheses using 3D printing
People who underwent larynx surgery face a necessity of a voice prosthesis implantation, but such artificial windpipes are only produced abroad.
2 monthes ago - News Medical
Sensory Prosthesis Allows an Amputee to Pick Up His Granddaughter Again
Use of Sensory Prosthesis at home gives a feel of Having a Hand Again to Amputees, finds a new study. These Neural-connected Sensory Prostheses give the functional and a...
2 monthes ago - Medindia Health
O&P's Virtual Present and Future
Despite technological advances in prosthetics, a major problem within the O&P profession remains that a large percentage of amputees still abandon or reject their prosthesis...
2 monthes ago - Healio
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