Prosthetic maker says job is a joy.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Nathan Keepers is a busy man, routinely working 12-hour days building artificial limbs and bracing systems as well as managing his small but busy business, Barnhart Prosthetic and Orthotic Services. He recently moved the practice from Eugene to...

Bionic man; Technology offers hope to amputees.
Byline: Linda Bock A paratrooper, 19-year-old Karl D. Chapin was positioned near a firing range in 1969 about a mile from the infamous Hamburger Hill area in the Ashshaw Valley in Vietnam when three nearby bases were hit by the Viet Cong simultaneously about 3 a.m. ...

'Face-to-face' DME prescribing called annoying.
WASHINGTON -- Medicare's proposal to require a face to-face visit before a physician can prescribe a wheelchair or other durable medical equipment is annoying and inconvenient, several physicians said at a meeting of the program's Practicing Physicians Advisory Council. "If I take care of stroke patients in...

Monkeys move arm with mind: technology may eventually lead to improved prostheses.
If these monkeys were 1970s TV stars, they would play crime-fighting cyborgs in The Six Million Dollar Monkeys. Macaque monkeys with electrodes implanted in their brains learned to control a robotic arm with their thoughts, researchers report. Scientists gently restrained the monkeys' own arms and...

Out of darkness; Senior center, health aides target elderly depression.
Byline: Kelly Glista A small crowd had gathered in the lunchroom of the Worcester Senior Center to hear a talk by Dr. Scott H. Gonzalez, a geriatric psychiatrist. The sun was shining through the windows and in the corner of the room someone was playing...

ConforMIS Says Its Patient-Specific Knee Surgery Technique Featured in Orthopedics Today.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 June 2008-ConforMIS Says Its Patient-Specific Knee Surgery Technique Featured in Orthopedics Today(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com ConforMIS, a privately held company that develops and commercializes minimally invasive orthopedic devices, announced that the iUni unicompartmental knee resurfacing implant and its accompanying iJig instrumentation are...

Research and Markets Adds Report: Germany Orthopedic Devices Investment Opportunities.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 July 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Germany Orthopedic Devices Investment Opportunities(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Germany Orthopedic Devices Investment Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts to 2012" report to its offerings. In a release,...

ORLive Presents - Same Day Partial Knee Replacement Surgery.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-14 June 2008-ORLive Presents - Same Day Partial Knee Replacement Surgery(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Halifax Health will present a live online same day partial knee replacement surgery in late June, ORLive reported. Richard Rhodes, MD, a surgeon with Atlantic Orthopedics, will...

Joint replacement surgery is riskier in type 1 diabetes than in type 2.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Patients with type 1 diabetes were more likely than those with type 2 diabetes to die or develop perioperative complications after undergoing total knee or hip arthroplasty, a review of 65,769 cases found. The risk of death related to total joint arthroplasty in type...

Hospital for Special Surgery Added to Aetna Provider Network.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 July 2008-Hospital for Special Surgery Added to Aetna Provider Network(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Aetna and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) announced a new agreement on a three-year contract that adds the hospital to Aetna's provider network. The agreement became effective...