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• Lab-grown penis brings hope to men

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine say they have found a way to replace penile erectile tissue and function in animals.According to them their tissue engineering methods could one day help reconstruct and restore function to ...
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• Results of vocal rehabilitation using tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis after total laryngectomy and their predictive factors

  
  COMD News — Authority: 450
  Abstract The aims of this retrospective study were to evaluate prosthetic voice restoration by tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) in laryngectomized patients and to identify clinical factors correlated with functional outcomes. Between 2000 and 2008, 103 patients who underwent total laryngectomy or pharyngolaryngectomy ...
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• Penile Implants Before And After Photos

  
  MVMAG - Daily Hot News Update — Authority: 124
  While many men rely on medical treatment in order to develop an erection, penile prosthesis surgery is an option that has been found to be a very satisfying treatment for both men and their partners. In fact, prior to the development of the phosphodiesterase inhibitors (PDE-5 inhibitors), studies confirmed that ...
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• Hip and Knee Prostheses

  
  The Back Report — Authority: 152
  A prosthesis is an artificial replacement of or substitute for a part of the body. Prostheses may be removable or may be permanently implanted. A prosthesis is used for functional or cosmetic reasons or in many cases, a prostheses is used for both. Hip and knee prostheses are permanently implanted to replace a hip or ...
  1 week ago

• Cyclops - the visually-impaired robot

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 709
  Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot to help test the effectiveness of visual prostheses, such as an artificial retina, which are implanted into visually-impaired patients. Cyclops the robot - or, rather, the mobile robotic platform, or rover - lets ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bionic Eye Opens New World Of Sight For Blind

  
  TRENDBIRD (What's Next Big Thing ?) — Authority: 439
  Having seen a lot of vision implants for the blind, and some just to add to the cyborg aspect of it, we’re still to decide if these super-human efforts of the researchers will actually evolve the world for the visually impaired? Then those already successful cases scream on top of the voices and say you better ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prosthetic Smart Hand Lets Amputee Feel and Move Objects

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 597
  The Smart Hand allows its user to feel what it senses, allowing for precise control. When Luke Skywalker has his hand cut off in The Empire Strikes Back, he simply has it replaced with a mechanical one that looks, moves, and feels like a real hand. Now, whether you have lost your limb to a lightsaber or a disease, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fetal tissue helps restore partial vision in the blind

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 21 (ANI): In a novel study, researchers have successfully improved vision in people with blinding eye diseases by transplanting fetal tissue in the eye.Another experiment showed that retinal prosthesis could also restore some vision in patients with blinding eye disease.The researchers focussed their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bionic Eye May Help Blind See: Retinal Prosthesis Shown To Res...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  A new artificial retina, an array of electrodes implanted on the back of the eye, has been found to restore partial vision to totally blind people. In a study focused on 15 blind participants who had the implant for at least three months, 10 of the patients subsequently tested were able to identify the direction of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robot Surrogate Tests Artificial Retina Vision for the Blind

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 162
  The CYCLOPS mobile robotic platform is designed to be used as a surrogate for blind persons in the testing of visual prostheses. (Caltech/Wolfgang Fink, Mark Tarbell)Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the “visual” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robot Surrogate Tests Artificial Retina Vision for the Blind

  
  The X-Journals — Authority: 439
  Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina.
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• Robot surrogate. “… few people worldwide have been implanted with retinal prostheses, and there is only so much testing they can be asked to endure.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have presented “… a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the “visual” experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a silicon chip studded ...
  3 weeks ago

• Army gets new world-class dental centre at Delhi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Oct 19(ANI): The Army Dental Corps of the Indian Army on Monday established a world-class state of the art Army Dental Centre (Research and Referral) at the Delhi Cantonment. The Army Dental Corps has special inspection and treatment procedures for the armed forces soldiers that they inspect each and every ...
  3 weeks ago

• Todd Swanson Las Vegas Part of Design Team for New Mini-Stem Total Hip

  
  Your Story — Authority: 159
  Todd Swanson, Las Vega working with a team of orthopaedic surgeons design a new short stem total hip prosthesis specifically for the young, active patient.
  3 weeks ago

• Intelligent robotic hand prosthesis is developed

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  European scientists presented the prototype of an intelligent robotic prosthesis . The presented mechanical hand reproduces all of the movements of a natural hand, besides bringing the environmental sensations and the sense of the touch. The project, that it gathers researchers of universities and companies, plans to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bioengineered scaffold could restore sense of touch to prosthetic limbs

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 709
  Existing robotic prostheses have limited motor control, provide no sensory feedback and can be uncomfortable to wear. In an effort to make a prosthesis that moves like a normal hand, researchers at the University of Michigan have bioengineered a scaffold that is placed over severed nerve endings like a sleeve and ...
  3 weeks ago

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