The International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics recently announced a new editor-in-chief for the journal Prosthetics and Orthotics International. Timothy M. Bach, PhD, a recently retired associate professor of biomechanics for La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, has taken over…
Day: July 29, 2015
Philadelphia surgeons perform world’s first bilateral hand transplant on a child
The first pediatric bilateral hand transplant was recently performed by surgeons at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in collaboration with colleagues from Penn Medicine. The team successfully transplanted donor hands and forearms onto an 8-year-old child who had undergone amputation…