Paul McCullough served as the director of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoner’s limb shop in 1952 and led prisoners in the production of various artificial limbs. McCullough noted that the ...

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When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he ...

SANTA FE, Argentina (Reuters) - A laboratory in the Argentine farm province of Santa Fe has developed what it calls the first prosthetic arm in Latin America to use sensors to respond to nerve ...

Chinese scientists developed an object identification system for prosthetic hands to guide appropriate grip strength ...

FRISCO, Texas — At 7 years old, Siddarth Nandyala's parents bought him his first STEM kit. They never realized it would lead their son to becoming an inventor and entrepreneur at a young age. Now 13, ...

From space labs to hospital operating rooms, American technologists pride themselves on being able to miniaturize the most delicate equipment. But last week it was a Russian achievement that stirred ...

When Dave Hewett started Adaptive Prosthetics & Orthotics in 1997, his goal was to provide patients needing artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices with a more individualized and compassionate ...

Doctors in the Netherlands are now testing a new type of prosthetic "click-on" arm that is connected to the patient's existing nerves. It needs a little help from Bluetooth, but the end result is a ...

I’M CAROL CLARK. IN A SPECIAL NEWS FOR YOUR HEALTH. FOR MANY GRADUATES, IT’S BEEN AN INTENSE FEW MONTHS OF FINAL PROJECTS AND REPORTS. BUT FOR ONE LOCAL STUDENT, THAT SENIOR PROJECT WAS A REAL LABOR ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. In the 1880s and 1890s, the first artificial limb companies set up shop in ...