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Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital started using 3D-printed copies of patients' affected body parts to prepare for procedures last year. Now, that move has helped save the lives of four children ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – The use of 3D printing has long ...

A team of engineers and pediatric orthopedic surgeons are using 3D printing to help train surgeons and shorten surgeries for the most common hip disorder found in children ages 9 to 16. In a recent ...

Dr. Redmond P. Burke, chief of cardiovascular surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, holds a 3D-printed heart model. The program is the first in the region to use 3D printing technology to create a ...

How can 3D printing be used to train medical students and what are some of the benefits? Slide tracheoplasty is a relatively rare procedure where a narrow section of airway is divided and the healthy ...

Children’s Health is working with a company to develop software that displays holograms of the heart, in addition to using 3D printing, to advance cardiac care. The 3D technology used in the software ...

Atrium Health’s Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is one of a handful of sites nationwide with the ability to turn computer models into 3D replicas of children’s hearts. These models can then be used ...

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – When it comes to incorporating technology into health care, Rady Children’s Hospital is constantly evolving. Six months ago the hospital opened a 3D Innovation Lab where they can ...

Seattle Children’s Hospital is using 3D printing to create replicas of patients’ organs and tissue to give its surgical team an opportunity to practice together before an operation, according to an ...

Beth Ripley holds a 3D printed heart in her hands at the National Maker Faire last weekend in Washington, D.C. 3D Print For Health Beth Ripley ran down the hallway toward the cardiologist with a fresh ...

Three-dimensional reconstruction and modeling technology is not new in hospitals. In fact, many organizations have dedicated radiology technologists that perform 3D reconstructions from ...