This Is How Prosthetic Eyes are Made
A small, highly skilled team at Moorfields Eye Hospital transform the lives of people who have lost their eyes to accidents and disease. Each year, they work with their clients to create around 1,400 customized, detailed prosthetics, many of which replace eyes. Here’s how. Modern prosthetic eyes are far removed from the old misconceptions about…
UK Woman Gets “World’s Most Advanced” Bionic Hand Replacement
A new technology has enabled a woman who was born without a right hand to ride a bike for the first time, among other new abilities. Steeper Group, which is based in Leeds, created the “BeBionic” small hand for Nicky Ashwell, a 26-year-old from London; the company claims it is the most “anatomically accurate” out…
Are Hospitals the Safest Place for Women to Give Birth?
There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned out fine, or at least fine enough, since you were eventually born too and are now reading this. But since the late 1960s, very few babies in the United Kingdom or the United…
This Test Predicts Your Risk of Dying in the Next Five Years
There is a great interest in understanding what might predict life expectancy in the general population. We already know several risk factors that have a substantial impact on mortality. For example, smoking, lack of exercise and increased body mass index have been shown to increase the risk of dying earlier. Most previous studies have investigated…