Prosthetic users in Missouri could receive insurance coverage for multiple kinds of prosthetic devices under terms of a bill heard Thursday in the House Health and Mental Health Committee. Currently ...

ReVision Implant announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Occular visual cortical prosthesis.

A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

A quiet plant growing in water might not seem like the beginning of a medical innovation. Yet in a design lab at the University of the Philippines, that plant ...

Who wouldn't want to slip into Iron Man's armor or try out the gigantic Jaegers that saved the world in the movie Pacific Rim? Wearable exoskeletons currently being built, from the military-based ...

The dental industry is undergoing a monumental shift. The transition from traditional, manual mold-making to high-precision ...

Remember the giant, human-controlled Prosthesis mech suit? We first saw the design back in 2014. It's a 4,000-kg (8,820-lb), 4-meter-tall (13-ft), chromoly steel-framed monster that uses some 170 kW ...

Jan. 01, 2009 -- Question: What is penile prosthesis, how does it work, and what are its advantages/disadvantages? Answer: A penile prosthesis is a surgically implanted device that allows a man to ...

Spanish neuroscientist Eduardo Fernández, MD, PhD, left, and University of Utah’s Richard A. Normann, PhD. Scientists from Spain’s Miguel Hernandez University and the John A. Moran Eye Center at the ...

Three new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) highlight the use and advantages of osseointegration (OI) for ...

Transmitting sensory signals from prostheses to the nervous system helps leg amputees to perceive prosthesis as part of their body. While amputees generally perceive their prostheses as heavy, this ...