Although the Stop the Bleed campaign’s impact is encouraging, gaps remain. These gaps include rapid skill decay, a lack of easy-to-use tourniquets for the untrained public, and training barriers that prevent scalability. Source: journals.lww.com
Teams of trained first responders and readily available equipment dramatically improve the odds of survival when someone suffers a cardiac emergency during an NFL game at Gillette Stadium, but doctors say the survival rates are much lower at home. Source:…
The war in Ukraine, the US exit from Afghanistan, and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have all converged to create a perfect storm of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). These crises highlight the critical need to invest, develop,…
Recapitulating inherent heterogeneity and complex microarchitectures within confined print volumes for developing implantable constructs that could maintain their structure in vivo has remained challenging. Here, we present a combinational multimaterial and embedded bioprinting approach to fabricate complex tissue constructs that…
The fact that Burkhard can move any fingers is practically a miracle. The hand he controls is not his own, but a robotic prosthesis clamped to a lab bench 3 feet away. Source: bostonglobe.com
As heavy metal music plays in the background, a doctor grabs a piece of cloth and places it atop an open wound on a medical dummy. Pressing on the cloth with both hands, he applies pressure. Later, he secures a…
Emerging bio-nanotechnology has greatly favored the innovation of orthopedic therapies through more comprehensive mimicry of native bone tissue. Source: sciencedirect.com
With the help of Stepping Strong Military-Civilian Advisor Dr. Eric Goralnick, Oncology surgeon and Ukrainian native Dr. Nelya Melnitchouk is using her first language to teach Ukrainians how to treat the wounds of war. Source: boston.cbslocal.com
It’s not every day that scribbling on a napkin leads to a major medical breakthrough. But that’s precisely the outcome Matthew Carty and Hugh Herr set in motion while dining (and doodling) at a Boston restaurant some 10 years ago.…
Effective osteogenesis remains a challenge in the treatment of bone defects. The emergence of artificial bone scaffolds provides an attractive solution. In this work, a new biomineralization strategy is proposed to facilitate osteogenesis through sustaining supply of nutrients including phosphorus…