Machined PEEK plastic has been used in custom cranial implants for some time, as it is strong, light, and biocompatible. Recent efforts have yielded a range of printable medical-grade PEEK ...
Read More »In 2020, a gas leak at a bakery in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, caused an inferno resulting in 25 fatalities and dozens of people sustaining injuries, many being burns related injuries. To ...
Read More »China is embracing metal additive manufacturing for the large scale manufacture of medical implants. Beijing-based AK Medical have been in the implant game for a while now. At first they ...
Read More »Microfluidic systems may be small, but they’re likely to be among the fastest growing applications for 3D printing in the coming years due to their low cost of entry and production. ...
Read More »Researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) in Adelaide, Australia, have manufactured an esophageal stent which can help treat cancer patients. Stents are small tubes that ...
Read More »The research forefront of 3D printing for spines is ever advancing, and China offers the latest advancement with Huaxiang Group’s AM titanium spinal fusion cage receiving Category 3 medical ...
Read More »In 2018, we covered a research project where the team developed highly stretchable hydrogel for 3D printing that could be used in all sorts of applications, from bio-scaffolds for ...
Read More »An infant in Dehli, India, has had a medical condition called Trigonocephaly treated with the aid of additive manufacturing. Patients with Trigonocephaly are affected by a triangular ...
Read More »A recently developed ventilator has been unveiled by a team of researchers from Hungary, and they hope that the modular system, which has been designed with the aid of additive ...
Read More »Custom earware is not limited to hearing aids. Learn how ACS has set out to bring bespoke hearing protection..
Read More »Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that can be caused by a number of muscular and neuromuscular conditions. It affects 2-3% of the world’s population, so hundreds of millions of ...
Read More »The market for microfluidic chambers is still small, mostly because the technology to create them effectively hasn’t been around that long. 3D printing microfluidic circuits has the ...
Read More »The hearing aid industry was one of the first sectors to employ 3D printing in mass production of products. Every ear is different, and 3D printing allows perfect bespoke customization for ...
Read More »Tunable stiffness is highly desirable in the world of medical implant manufacture. When 3D printing prosthetics (especially bone replacements) it’s important to get the variable stiffness ...
Read More »It is no secret that COVID has put a strain on medical device production. Items ranging from PPE equipment to nasal swabs to medical ventilators have all been affected...and in many cases, ...
Read More »If you just place an orthopedic implant into a human being without considering the flexibility of the replacement bone, then you risk what is known as “stress shielding”. This is due to ...
Read More »In a presentation to the Innovation Committee of the IDIS Foundation (Institute for the Development and Integration of Health) in Spain, directors of Philips explained how their new surgical ...
Read More »The Covid pandemic has shown a spike in output from home 3D printing enthusiasts and industrial bodies alike. Many online designs suffer from a common feature however… they take several ...
Read More »Medical 3D printing news of the last few months has been dominated largely by coronavirus-themed stories. Masks, ventilators, valves… even vaccine discovery aided with 3D printing. But ...
Read More »As countries around the world grapple with the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), there have been several 3D printing-related occurrences worth reporting. Last month we told you about ...
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