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Building Surgical Skills with 3D Printed Practice at University of Michigan Medical School
As with any profession that has immediate, real life consequences that are starkly set out in terms of life and death, the more practice that a surgeon can get before…
3D Printing News Briefs: March 31, 2017
Happy Friday! In today’s edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with business in the front and medical 3D printing in the back, with the Women Startup Challenge Europe…
3D Printed Model Provides Assistance in Young Boy’s Complex Heart Surgery
When Katrina Bradley went to her doctor for an ultrasound, she was four months pregnant with her second child. Unfortunately, it was during that ultrasound that she learned that her baby…
3D Printed Heart Model Helps Cardiologist at the Heart Institute at CHLA to Create Special Stent for a Toddler
It’s almost time for Valentine’s Day, that holiday of endless hearts and flowers and even some 3D printable gifts. But February 14th is not just Valentine’s Day: it’s also the…
Swedish Singer-Songwriter Writes a Pop Song About a 3D Printed Tumor Model – and It’s Really Good!
Most of the time, when we write about 3D printed medical models here at 3DPrint.com, we talk about how they can help surgeons plan out complex surgeries ahead of time,…
3D Printing Helped Welsh Professor to Develop Award-Winning Trauma Simulator for Military Surgeons
People can train for war and disaster – that’s what they do in the military, after all, and in the fields of emergency response and medicine. No matter how much…
3D Printed Models in the Operating Room: 3D Systems Brings Technology to Surgeons
Thanks to 3D modeling and 3D printing technologies, we are seeing advances in cases that have a direct impact on individual lives — increasingly appearing thanks to advances in surgical…
Miller 3D Works with Universities to Train Students with 3D Printed Medical Models
Miller 3D, a division of machine tool technology supplier AW Miller, does a little bit of everything in terms of 3D technology. The New York-based company is a reseller of…
Czech Researchers Use 3D Printing to Create Fully Functional Lung Model
Often when we are sick or injured and seeking treatment from a medical professional, we do not consider all the background that actually goes into surgeries and the overall healing—much…
Twin Babies No Longer Joined at the Brain Thanks to 3D Technology
Conjoined twins are extremely rare, and often don’t survive long past birth. The parents of those who do survive are faced with a choice: risk having the children separated in…
San Draw Medical Develops Realistic 3D Printed Model for Suture Training
When 3D printing started appearing more frequently in the medical world, it was largely in the form of 3D printed organ models that allowed doctors and surgeons to plan out…
Poland: 3D Printed Fetal Hearts Help Educate All Involved During the Ultrasound & After
There are many milestones in pregnancy, and they are generally all very exciting—whether it is your first baby or your fourth. Verifying that you are really pregnant is the first…
Finally! Medical Students Have Realistic ‘Arm’ to Practice on with 3D Printed IV Injection Trainer
Those studying to become doctors are known to be some of the most devoted—and competitive—students you will ever meet. As they work their way through the rigorous challenges of medical…
Vascular Simulations Utilizes 3D Printed Vascular Models to Enhance Training and Treatment
Nothing poses a greater threat to the livelihood of the human body than cardiovascular disease, which, according to the American Heart Association, is the leading global cause of death, accounting…
Utah Woman Beats Kidney Cancer Thanks to Progressive Doctors & 3D Printing
Most of us have a sad spot somewhere within as we remember a loved one who suffered from cancer. Many of us have driven family members back and forth to treatment—sometimes…
University of Illinois Veterinarians Use 3D Printing to Help With Eagle’s Surgery
There’s no denying the impact that 3D printing technology has had on the medical industry. From surgical preparation to patient-specific prosthetics, it has become a viable technological solution for a…
Alder Hey Is First UK Hospital to Use 3D Printed Model in Operating Theatre
The UK’s Alder Hey Charity Hospital has recently raised a whopping £620,000 for its state of the art Research, Education, and Innovation Centre. This Centre, which opened in October 2015 and is…
Baby Kieran Thrives with Help from 3D Printed Heart Model
The day of an ultrasound can be one of the most exciting pre-birth connections a parent makes with his/her child. Even though the pictures don’t hold a candle to those…
For Hope & Faith: The Power of 3D Printing Helps Separate Conjoined Twins
Often, we talk about many new innovations and processes in manufacturing that would simply not be possible without the power of 3D printing behind them. From automotive to aerospace, many companies…
Slow & Steady is More Satisfying: Researchers Print 3D Model to Test Airflow While Dining
My mother and her friends have serious affinity for couscous, whether it’s simple and steamed, in a salad with raisins and onions, or stuffed into something, heavy on the spices….
Stratasys’ 3D Printing Helps Save the Life of a Little Girl with a Heart Deformation
If you were looking for a poster child to be the image of the dramatic and powerful impact that 3D printing is having on quality of life, you wouldn’t need to…
MIT & Boston Children’s Hospital Conducting Study to See if 3D Printed Heart Models Offer Improvement in Surgical Outcome
3D printing offers enormous reward in that you can make things pretty much however you deem fit–it’s your 3D design and you can make it or tweak it at whim, enjoying the…
Dem Bones Seeks to Revolutionize Veterinary Education with 3D Printed Canine Skeletons
We’ve shared a lot of stories with you about the benefits that 3D printing has provided for medical education, for example the 3D anatomy series produced by Monash University. Now a project…
Heart Transplant Surgery Performed With Help of Color Coded 3D Printed Model
There comes a day in everyone’s life when they realize that the human heart bears no resemblance to that double lobed drawing that shows up on Valentine’s Day cards and cheap…
