A powered prosthetic leg that predicts when the wearer is about to take steps on flat or inclined surfaces, or…
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Hard search for less invasive brain surgery leads to eyelid
Doctor after doctor said removing the tumor causing Pamela Shavaun Scott’s unrelenting headaches would require cutting open the top of…
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High-tech sensors help kids keep eye on aging parents
Each time 81-year-old Bill Dworsky or his 80-year-old wife Dorothy opens the refrigerator, closes the bathroom door or lifts the…
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Clinically dead woman revived after 42 minutes
Australian doctors have saved the life of a woman who was clinically dead for 42 minutes. The miracle patient was…
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Facebook, Google team up to design cancer research game
Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google…
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New technology helps surgeons avoid losing sponges in your body
During a 2006 surgery, doctors in Florida left surgical sponges inside 43-year-old Lenny LeClair’s bowels, which he said nearly caused…
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital have saved an infant with a rare, life-threatening condition…
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Robot surgeries hot among surgeons but FDA taking a new look
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000…
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Experts issue guidelines for gene tests in kids
Groups representing pediatricians and geneticists issued new recommendations on Thursday to provide doctors with guidance about when to test a…
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New MIT finger device reads to blind in real time
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger…
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