Desperate Patients Look to Lab-Grown Organs
Last week Yvonne and I watched a two-hour NBC News special report by Meredith Vieira, A Leap of Faith, that blew us away and had us both to tears. It was about an Italian scientist and…
ReWalk Personal Exoskeleton cleared by FDA
The FDA has cleared ReWalk, a personal exoskeleton that allows people with Spinal Cord Injury to stand & walk. NEWS — Personal exoskeleton leader ReWalk Robotics announced that the FDA cleared the company’s ReWalk Personal System…
Powering tiny medical circuits in the body
In my interview last year with Dr. Metin Akay, he described the daunting problem of powering tiny computer chips deep inside the body. Neurologists, he said, can already control the misfiring of rogue neurons that cause epilepsy by…