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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Memory loss is a medical symptom that affects everyone at one time or another. It can come in the casual form of forgetting where you put your keys, or in the more severe form of forgetting who you ...

Subcutaneous extrusion of penile prosthesis cylinders beneath the glans penis is an unusual but difficult complication of penile prosthesis. Without surgical repair, extrusion, infection, and ...