3-D printers are now being used in the medical field.  Doctors recently used a 3-D printer to create an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old boy’s life. After imaging the child's faulty windpipe, doctors at the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital printed 100 tiny...

While it is still an ongoing struggle for scientists to find an effective, safe HIV vaccine, a new supercomputer-aided discovery is offering new hope. Researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh were able to accurately map the four...

For most of time medicine was a complete guessing game. Doctors, or witch doctors, or shaman would inspect a patient, stir a potion and hope it would work. With some notable exceptions, modern medicine isn't so different. Collecting things like blood pressure, heart...

We've known for a few years now that DARPA-funded prosthetics research is yielding some pretty incredible technology. Now DARPA is literally building super heroic technology that enables amputees to control prosthetic limbs with their minds. In science fiction...

It’s been 5 years now since we first saw Honda’s Walking Assist Device and now it will finally be used on a broader scale. The first 100 units are being sent out to 50 different hospitals across Japan as a part of a loan program. The device weighs 2.6kg and straps...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now made it clear that a new Middle Eastern virus is a threat to the entire world. In her closing speech at the organization's annual international meeting in Switzerland yesterday, WHO Director General Margaret Chan said:...

Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display that is being developed by Google. The device is hands free and displays information in a smartphone-like format that can interact with the internet via voice commands.  While Google's advertising for...