Prosthetics

I've decided to try turning my weekly science columns into a weekly podcast, and the first episode ( "Prosthetics") is now at its permanent home (I know, I posted it earlier in the week using Box, but now it's at avMYpodCast. com, which also automatically indexes it with iTunes).

Broadway debut for a promising playwright... ewillett 2007

She heard about Erik Schaffer, owner of A Step Ahead Prosthetics (ASAP) in Hicksville, at a race, and three years ago she quit her job as a welder in Meadville and moved to Hicksville to train and work for him.

Running down a dream: Leg amputee makes U.S. track team 2010

A new interpretation of medical Prosthetics by the designer Francesca Lanzavecchia.

Archive 2008-08-01 Red 2008

When DARPA director Tony Tether and Revolutionizing Prosthetics program manager Colonel Geoffrey Ling approached him in 2005, Kamen says he thought they were crazy — “in the good kind of way,” he says.

Boing Boing 2008

A new interpretation of medical Prosthetics by the designer Francesca Lanzavecchia.

ProAesthetics Supports Red 2008

He reached out to the Ivan Sabel Hanger Foundation, allied with Hanger Orthotics and Prosthetics, the world's largest maker of prosthetics, and decided to partner with them to make it happen.

Alicia Whitaker: Benefit for Haiti: More Prosthetics on the Way 2010

It's now up to DARPA, who funded the project through the Revolutionizing Prosthetics contract, to determine whether to foot the bill for human testing, and the FDA to approve the trials.

Boing Boing 2008

He reached out to the Ivan Sabel Hanger Foundation, allied with Hanger Orthotics and Prosthetics, the world's largest maker of prosthetics, and decided to partner with them to make it happen.

Alicia Whitaker: Benefit for Haiti: More Prosthetics on the Way 2010

Prosthetics made to glue on daily are a more common option, especially for cancer patients whose doctors need to regularly check for recurrences.

Hollywood-style special effects give girl new ear 2010

Proto 1, developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program, is a complete limb system that also includes a virtual environment used for patient training, clinical configuration, and to record limb movements and control signals during clinical investigations.

DARPA Completes First Bionic Arm Prototype | Impact Lab 2007