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17 matches found for "hip prosthesis"

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Safely fixed hip prostheses

Hip prostheses do not hold forever. If an implant comes loose, the doctors have to replace it. Most patients need this second operation after about 15 years. By then, the first prosthesis has often wo...

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EPFL Launches Center for Neuroprostheses

This Lausanne-based pioneering facility, to be inaugurated in January, 2009, will include five Chairs and is situated at the crossroads between fundamental research, clinical applications and market o...

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Better insights needed into failure mechanisms of hip replacements

Computation models developed by the University of Twente and UMC St. Radboud can make an important contribution to our understanding in this field, says Prof. Nico Verdonschot in his inaugural lecture...

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Wireless vision implant

For twelve years, experts from different disciplines in the fields of microelectronics, neurophysics, information engineering, computer science, materials science and medicine have been working to dev...

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Grand Challenges in Microelectronics aim for ‘Moore for less’

The goals are part of the Grand Challenges in Microelectronic Design, a scheme funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and co-ordinated by the University of Southampto...

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New natural plastic extends life of bone implant

They are collaborating on research into the technological properties of composites that have a better capacity to adapt to the skeleton, thereby hopefully eliminating risky re-operations. Thes...

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Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma

Findings will be detailed in three research papers being presented at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's Sciences and Technologies for Health conference from Aug. 23-26 in Lyon, Fr...

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Six previously blind patients detect light, motion, identify objects with retinal prostheses

USC researchers present information on ’artificial retina’ May 2 at ARVO 2005 Researchers from the University of Southern California and the Doheny Eye Institute...

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MDCT is Better Than Plain Film in Diagnosing Hip Replacement Complications

Multidetector CT (MDCT) is superior to plain film x-rays for detecting problems that occur in patients who have undergone hip replacements, a new study shows. Hip prostheses gen...

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Successfully visualising multimodal biomedicine data

Picturing complex data may become considerably easier as a solution to display combined information from multiple data formats, currently applied to biomedicine, emerges. In November...

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Brain signals from the paralyzed or injured captured by computer

Gains in communication and movement may be reality soon for patients Exciting new research into how signals from the brain can be captured by a computer or other device to carry...

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Nerve prosthesis developed in Umeå

The first clinical study ever with a new type of nerve prosthesis has been launched at Northern Sweden University Hospital. It is being carried out by a research team from Umeå University under...

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Bone cement only controls bacteria for a few days after the operation

Dutch research has revealed that bone cement containing antibiotics can effectively control infections around prostheses but only during the first few days after the implantation. For the past ...

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Study of Hip Replacement Patients Finds 80 Percent Eligible for Minimally Invasive Surgery

93 Percent Leave Hospital Same Day; Even Seniors Can Have Outpatient Surgery After analyzing safety and efficacy data from an initial group of 120 minimally invasive hip surgery...

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Retinal prosthesis trial completes first phase of testing

One-year results presented at annual ophthalmology meeting Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, its Doheny Retina Institute and...

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