3d printed medical device

The Power of NinjaFlex: French Occupational Therapists Create 3D Printed Joystick for Wheelchair

3D printing has affected manufacturing and designing to the point that nearly everything that can be made is either now rolling off of a 3D printer or will be soon–and…

Osteo3d Makes a Difference with 3D Printed Helmet for 5-Month-Old Craniosynostosis Patient

While 3D printing is making leaps and bounds throughout nearly every sector, delighting, shocking, and blowing minds from outrageous 3D printed fashion to plans for using the technology even in…

3D Printed Device Eases Operation on Varicose Veins

You would be hard pressed to find an arena in which 3D printing is not making an impact. While it has been clear for some time now that the potential…

Teen Builds 3D Printed Heart Alert Device For His Ailing Mother

Now a 17 year-old, Frank Nguyen spent years faced with the kind of parental issue most kids will never have to deal with – he worried about his Mom’s health every…

After 30 Years, French Meteorologist’s Eye is Repaired with 3D Printed Titanium Implant

“The way people look at you, it’s horrible,” relays Maxime Turpin, regarding his drooping eye, which was finally repaired with 3D printing technology forty years after a serious bout with…

Founder of Bespoke Innovations Fashions Open Structure for 3D Printed Arm Cast, Applied in Seconds

Most of us have been exposed to the world of orthopedics in one way or another–and it’s not a place any of us usually want to be. As the mother…

They Said It Was Impossible: Seattle Doctor Uses 3D Printed Medical Model to Save Spleen

What does the spleen actually do? Is this one of those organs that we even actually need? You can sometimes stump even the most degreed and intellectual people with this…

Safer & Faster: German Researchers Invent 3D Printed Device for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

3D printing is currently providing substantial and highly beneficial transformation to a multitude of sectors covering everything from car parts to manufacturing jewelry and apparel. The medical sector has been…

Comfortably Numb: Students Create 3D Printed Numbing Device for Injections

We all want to avoid the dreaded shot, and no one is more aware of this than parents who have to coax kids into the doctor’s office even for well…

NuVu Studio: Students Aim to Diminish Hypothermia in Climbers with 3D Printed IV Device

3D printing is often involved in the innovation of prototyping that helps with sustainability on many levels. We’ve reported on a number of fascinating products created with 3D printing that are…

Breakthrough May Soon Allow the Creation of 3D Printed Medical Models to be as Easy as Using a Smartphone

It seems like every other day we are reporting on instances where 3D printed medical models have been used in doctors’ offices, operating rooms, and surgical centers throughout the world….

3D Printed Scaffolding Implant Used to Help Realign Patient’s Eyes After Tumor Removal

If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you are aware that 3D printing of medical implants and devices is not such a rare thing anymore; what is, however, still…

Eye Prostheses for Post-Surgical Cancer Patients, Created via 3D Printing, Offer New Hope

Cancer is a devastating diagnosis: no one would deny that. Eye cancer, which according to the American Cancer Society has over 2,700 new diagnoses annually in the United States, brings…

A 3D Printed Wifi Enabled Marijuana Inhaler: Looks to make medical cannabis use more legitimate

The use of medical marijuana has been debated for decades. The proponents of legalizing it believe that it is an efficient method that can be used to reduce the suffering…