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New hope for amputees.
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WHEN Darth Vader chops off Luke Skywalker's hand in the movie "The Empire Strikes Back," Star Wars' favorite hero helps himself to a robotic prosthesis and proceeds on his merry way.
Thanks to technology, this sci-fi scenario is closer to reality than many people realize, said Dr. Roy Aaron, an orthopedic surgeon and director of the Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, R.I.
Aaron predicts that bio-hybrid limbs will be commercially available within three years, and that lifelike prostheses with a…
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New Hope for Amputees
...Providence. "It's our hope and intention to...settings to benefit war amputees," he said. Aaron...the prosthesis. * New Amputees Brent Bretz knows...polymers to help amputees climb stairs. Herr plans to develop a new generation of robotic... |
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New hope for amputees.
...Providence. "It's our hope and intention to...settings to benefit war amputees," he said. Aaron...the prosthesis. New Amputees Brent Bretz knows...polymers to help amputees climb stairs. Herr plans to develop a new generation of robotic... |
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Robotic Limbs Offer New Hope to Amputees
...researchers at the new Providence center. "It's our hope and intention to transfer...settings to benefit war amputees," he says. There...on construction of new facilities for which...to go further." 'New Amputees' Brent Bretz, 23... |
 "Sunday Tribune (South Africa)")
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Project gives amputees new hope.(News)
...had given up hope of walking tall...used to her new life without...province's 80 000 amputees fitted with...waiting, her new leg will be...talks with the Amputees Club after media...years. "We hope to build a factory...of relying on amputees trying to find...can start a ... |
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Electrodes offer amputees, paralyzed people new hope
...others involved in a new study revealing that amputees and paralyzed people...or legs, as the new device would give...interface, enabling "amputees or people with...author, said the new research represents...the thoughts of amputees and paralyzed people... |
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Body builders: biomedical engineers help give amputees new strength and...
...dollars to improve artificial arms and legs. New technologies are making prosthetic limbs...as bladders or heart valves. Some design new drugs or medical equipment. Other biomedical...and cutting-edge technology to create new devices. Sense of Touch To understand how... |
 "The Saturday Star (South Africa)")
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New legs a dream come true; After being promised prosthetic limbs that haven't...
...started giving up all hope that their dreams would...Prosthetic Project. "We hope this project will snowball...supply the estimated 80 000 amputees in the province with new limbs." A team from...who had given up all hope of getting a new limb... |
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Missing limbs, lacking hope; Amputees face long wait for prostheses in...
...waited nine months for his new leg. "He's a young...have left behind more amputees than government-run...since the war began. For amputees such as Ibrahim, the...now, he'll have to hope for outside help or simply...physically significant for amputees, especially children... |
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Hope for amputees
...University have developed a new way of administering anaesthetic...nearly 80 per cent when amputees are given anaesthetic...highlighted the plight of amputees. The research team will now publish their study and hope the new treatment will be used... |
 "Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)")
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HELPING HANDS | AURORA NURSES BRING HOPE TO AMPUTEES IN AFRICA
...program which offers amputees a chance to be fitted...there in 1998 with World Hope International; she saw...for special care for amputees. So she wrote a proposal for a program, Limbs of Hope. Now there is an amputee...was hacked off got a new one; he can drive again... |
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