Huntsman Cancer Institute Facial Prosthetics creates realistic prosthetics for people who have lost a part of the face due to cancer, other illnesses, or injuries. We also make prosthetics for people ...

We report the use of a bone-anchored, self-contained robotic arm with both sensory and motor components over 3 to 7 years in four patients after transhumeral amputation. The implant allowed for ...

After the initial shock of the Boston Marathon bombings wore off, many people began to wonder—quite rightly—what the future would hold for those who lost limbs in the explosions. In the past, the ...

A new kind of prosthetic leg that fuses with bone has helped change one man’s life and could become the future for amputees. Christopher Rowles is one of the first people in the U.S. to trade in his ...

Anna Vlachaki does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” These were the hopeful words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a man born on the ...

Every quarter, UC San Diego engineers Joshua Pelz and Luca De Vivo, as well as prosthetics specialist Herb Barrack, travel to Ensenada, Mexico, where they work with amputees to provide free, ...