The House of Representatives passed a bill repealing a 2.3% excise tax for medical devices, which would be levied on manufacturers and importers of surgical tools, artificial hips and knees, coronary devices and X-ray machines. The Congressional Joint Committee on…
Day: June 8, 2012
University of Rhode Island professor awarded grant for prosthesis research
Helen Huang, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, received a $520,000 grant to investigate and quantify the interactive effects between lower limb amputees and powered prostheses, according to a press release. Currently, Huang is…