medical

Kind-hearted hobbyists create a prosthetic hand for a five-year old boy using 3D printers, bungie cable and a little know-how.

A new electronic implant technology allows blind people to detect objects and identify the letters of the alphabet or the time on a clock face.

A doctor will perform heart surgery remotely using a robot arm, in a pioneering operation conducted at Glenfield Hopistal Leicester.

Korean researchers have demonstrated how a human arm is capable of transmitting a broadband data signal.

Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors.

A tiny glass telescope about the size of a garden pea could hold the answer to patients suffering from an otherwise untreatable type of eye disease.

Waste material from discarded televisions could be recycled and used in medicine, according to new research by scientists at the University of York.