Day: July 6, 2015

The Amputee Coalition has announced Brickelle Bro, Austin Brown, Amy Frank and Tyson Higel as recipients of the 2015 Scott Decker, MD, Memorial Scholarship. The annual scholarship is presented to high school seniors, recent high school graduates, current college students…

The Amputee Coalition has announced Brickelle Bro, Austin Brown, Amy Frank and Tyson Higel as recipients of the 2015 Scott Decker, MD, Memorial Scholarship. The annual scholarship is presented to high school seniors, recent high school graduates, current college students…

DEKA Innovative Solutions Corp. was recently awarded a contract for the design, development, manufacture and delivery of sensitized prosthetic arms. The $6,977,028 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Hand Proprioception & Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX)…

DEKA Innovative Solutions Corp. was recently awarded a contract for the design, development, manufacture and delivery of sensitized prosthetic arms. The $6,977,028 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Hand Proprioception & Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX)…

Students at Kansas State University are giving prostheses a new look with bio-augmented, 3-D printed “skins,” or prosthetic covers, according to a recent press release. For a university project, groups of students interviewed patients with limb loss to gauge their…