Effect of Prosthetics Ruling Is Unclear
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The question of whether prosthetic limbs confer an advantage over able-bodied runners remains shrouded in confusion.
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Nov. 10 - Skilled surgeons use life saving medical devices. And manufacturers designed them for one patient or procedure only. But medical recycling companies resterilize them, putting more than 25 million used devices back into service.
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'Soldiers love the robotic look' A Scottish prosthetics company engaged in publicising its new bionic hand claims to have achieved significant advances in its field - and says servicemen injured in combat "love the more robotic look" of its technology.â¦
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The case of Terri Schiavo, which the Florida high court hears Tuesday, will help establish procedures in future cases. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The Supreme Court handed a victory to Medtronic Inc on Wednesday, ruling that patients cannot sue medical-device manufacturers in state court over harm from a device that has approval from federal regulators.
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Researchers train a monkey to feed itself by guiding a mechanical arm with its mind. It could be a big step forward for prosthetics. By David Cohn.
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick patients until a donor heart is found.
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A drug manufacturer won Supreme Court review Friday of a $6.8 million verdict in the case of a woman whose arm had to be amputated after she was injected with one of its medications.
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For decades, doctors have operated on babies born with ambiguous genitalia. But there is a growing debate about the role physicians Â and parents Â should play in physically shaping children.
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Someday, a runner with a prosthetic leg may challenge to run in the Olympics. In the meantime, there should be a way to infuse Oscar Pistoriusâs spirit into all of us, within Olympic rules, of course.
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U.S. regulatory reviewers on  Wednesday said it was unclear if Procter & Gamble Co.'s PG.N  testosterone patch for boosting sexual desire in women produces  meaningful benefit, or is safe over the long term.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 1--BRADENTON -- The judge in an eminent domain case has all the information he needs to decide whether the city of Palmetto can take control of the Olympia Theater from its owners.
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The Open Prothetics Project uses an open-source model to advance the state of the art in artificial limbs. By Quinn Norton. Part two in a four-part series.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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At issue is whether makers of medical equipment approved by the federal government may be sued under state law by patients injured by those devices.
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A common operation in which plaque is scraped out of an artery in the neck to prevent strokes is providing a dubious benefit to patients in as many as half of all surgeries, new Canadian research suggests.
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A panel of experts reaches mixed conclusions on the safety and effectiveness of drug-coated stents.