Few cost-effective interventions are available for hand osteoarthritis (OA) affecting the distal interphalangeal joint (DIP); however, short-term, night-time joint splinting could offer a safe and ...

When you think of medical devices, the idea of high end, well, pretty much everything, comes to mind. This is definitely the case when it comes to prosthetics, or in this similar case, custom fit ...

A baby boy born with fragile airways is doing better after experimental 3D-printed splints were placed in his body during surgery. Amir has congenital heart disease and tracheo-bronchomalacia, a ...

Little Kaiba Gionfriddo was born with a condition where his bronchus would collapse and cut off airflow to his lungs. He would stop breathing from time to time, and eventually he was admitted to the ...

A baby with a rare condition will get to go home for the first time thanks to a 3D-printed airway splint that is helping him breathe on his own. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

I have had shin splints for two years and run 25 miles a week in Nike Free running shoes. My sports doctor says that even though I am 44 years old and have been running for 25 years, I am an ...

A 18-month-old baby hooked to a ventilator just to stay alive, was recently discharged from University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital following a surgery where a 3D-printed airway splint ...