Curbell Plastics Inc. has donated $18,000 in plastic to Alabama high school students, who will use the plastic to create lightweight prosthetics for amputees in Honduras. The project is a shared effort of Calera High School, the SME Education Foundation…
Year: 2014
OPAF hosts wheelchair tennis clinics across the Carolinas
The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation recently hosted five wheelchair tennis clinics in North Carolina and South Carolina during a 5-day period. Made possible through grant funding from the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Wheelchair Tennis and OPAF’s partnerships with…
OPAF hosts wheelchair tennis clinics across the Carolinas
The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation recently hosted five wheelchair tennis clinics in North Carolina and South Carolina during a 5-day period. Made possible through grant funding from the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Wheelchair Tennis and OPAF’s partnerships with…
RoboHand partners with College of Ouachitas to mass produce 3-D prostheses
RoboHand, an organization that produces free or low-cost 3-D prostheses, has teamed with the College of the Ouachitas to open a 3-D printing farm. The farm, which features more than 50 on-campus Makerbot Replicator 3-D printers and six digitizers, will mass…
Össur announces dates for Mobility Clinics
Össur is offering six Mobility Clinics across the United States, a series of free, specialized workshops designed to enhance lower limb amputees’ experience in sports and recreational activities. Offered by the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), the Össur Mobility Clinics feature…
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease treatment receives orphan drug designation
The FDA and European Medicines Agency have given Pharnext SAS an orphan drug designation to its PXT-3003 for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A. PXT-3003 is an oral fixed low-dose combination of baclofen, naltrexone and sorbital. The orphan drug…
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease treatment receives orphan drug designation
The FDA and European Medicines Agency have given Pharnext SAS an orphan drug designation to its PXT-3003 for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A. PXT-3003 is an oral fixed low-dose combination of baclofen, naltrexone and sorbital. The orphan drug…
3-D printing design studio closes seed round funding
UNYQ, an interactive 3-D printing studio that allows amputees to design customizable protective prosthetic covers, recently closed seed round funding at more than $1 million. “The seed funding will enable us to invest in state-of-the-art 3-D printers and related technologies,”…
NIH launches interactive 3-D printing website
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched the NIH 3D Print Exchange, a public website that allows users to download, share and edit 3-D files related to health and science. The NIH uses 3-D printing to examine viruses, repair lab…
EHR systems raise concerns about patient safety
Use of electronic health records can pose patient safety concerns for patients, according to study results published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Between August 2009 and May 2013, researchers extracted 100 consecutive closed investigations from a…