Each year, thousands of people around the world lose a hand or finger, often due to accidents, war, natural disaster or illness. After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices ...

After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices can present their own challenge to these individuals, who are often in developing countries with limited medical care. A group ...

England’s port city of Southampton launched some of the most storied ocean liners in the world. It also will launch Maggie Brooks’ career as a prosthetic engineer. The biomedical engineering graduate ...

Two biomedical engineering graduate students were invited to participate in the October Innovate-A-Thon competition. Master’s students Sahana Balaji and Sophia Ramsey represented the University of ...

A group of budding biomedical engineer students at the University of Oklahoma are helping a 12-year-old Oklahoma City boy who was born with a deformed left hand. Austin Shumsky has a condition known ...

RALEIGH – Researchers have developed new software that can be integrated with existing hardware to enable people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons to walk in a safer, more natural manner on ...

News 5 Cleveland: Emily Graczyk, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, described the sensory prosthetic technology she is testing in a clinical trial. People may worry about using their ...

Prosthetics, biomedical engineering and degenerative myelopathy are not the kinds of things most 10-year-olds think about, but eight years ago, these thoughts triggered a passion for Lewis-Palmer High ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Ranu Jung, a biomedical engineering researcher and inventor, has been named the founding executive director of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's Institute for Integrative and ...

We don’t often think of medicine and engineering as being related concepts, and most of the time, they aren’t. But there’s a point where medicine alone may not be enough to treat a particular ailment ...

Researchers created realistic, skin-like replicas made of Ecoflex, a type of silicone rubber that can potentially serve as a platform to evaluate risks of bacterial infections from intravenous ...

The student and New Jersey native is combining his love for his major and his dog Cleo to create a special gift for his three-legged friend Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for ...