Implants are biomedical materials or medical devices intended to replace a missing biological structure, or support or augment the function of an existing one. Examples of implants are prostheses ...

Cochlear implants can be used to stimulate auditory nerve endings ... It's within the internal auditory canal that the cochlear nerve trunk joins the vestibular nerve to form cranial nerve VIII. When ...

The ophthalmic nerve is the first branch of the trigeminal nerve, which is also known as the fifth cranial nerve. The ophthalmic nerve supplies sensory innervation to the structures of the eye, ...

Chin implants are also expected “really take off in 2025,” Dr. Cat Chang, a Beverly Hills board-certified plastic surgeon, told Forbes. Her patients in particular, she added, have complained ...

“I have Count Orlok’s prosthetic penis framed at home,” Hoult revealed. “There’s a scene where Bill Skarsgård is slurping my blood and Robert Eggers asked, ‘How was that for you?

After Select Health refused to cover a prosthetic arm for 9-year-old Remington Bateman, citing it as "not medically necessary," the Batemans launched a GoFundMe and raised over $30,000.

The FDA has granted a groundbreaking approval to Humacyte for its off-the-shelf, bioengineered blood vessel implant, designed to replace a patient’s damaged artery following traumatic injuries ...

This article presents a controller that accounts for these dynamics to improve the impedance rendering accuracy of a robotic prosthesis research platform, the Open-Source Leg (OSL v2). We first ...

(One of his prosthetic feet broke off when he fell and was caught by a rope.) He took on increasingly difficult climbs: City Park, in Washington State, and Liquid Sky and Stage Fright, in New ...