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  Brain “Tricked” Into Embodying Prosthesis In a scientific collaboration between the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, researchers combined virtual reality and artificial tactile sensations to all...
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  SPS Enhances Website SPS, Alpharetta, Georgia, has added features to its website to allow SPS customers to use mobile devices for ordering . Other enhancements include a refreshed site design, search improvements, a new pediatric section and learning center, a...
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  Miami Hospital Closing O&P Lab After more than 50 years, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, will close its O&P lab in October and provide only off-the-shelf orthotics and use an outside contractor for prosthetic devices. The contractor has not yet been named. The annual cost...
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  Gillette Children’s Opens New Facility Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare, headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, has opened a new facility at 505 Paul Bunyan Drive NW, Bemidji, Minnesota. The location is larger and will be open more frequently than their prior facility.
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  Hanger Announces 2Q, YTD Financial Results Hanger, Austin, Texas, announced financial results for its second quarter (2Q) and the six months year-to-date (YTD) that ended June 30. Financial highlights include: Net revenue was $267 million, compared to $263.4 million in 2Q 2017, reflecting...
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  Study: Major Complications Rare in Transfemoral Bone-anchored Prosthesis A new study describes the results of a systematic literature search of device-related complications in people with amputations who were treated with a bone-anchored prosthetic device. The researchers who conducted the study searched the MEDLINE, C...
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  Myomo Posts 2Q Financial Results Myomo, Cambridge, Massachusetts, reported its financial results for the second quarter (2Q) ended June 30. Financial highlights include: Total revenue was $632,000, an increase of 106 percent, compared to the same period a year ago. Total revenu...
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  PrimeFare Central Calls for Abstracts PrimeCare Orthotics and Prosthetics Network, Germantown, Tennessee, has issued a call for abstracts for its PrimeFare Central Regional Scientific Symposium, being held February 23-24, 2019, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The deadline for abstracts for orthot...
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  OPIE Software Appoints Business Development Officer OPIE Software, Gainesville, Florida, has named Alejandro Wyszkowski as its new chief business development officer. Wyszkowski will oversee all financial, sales, and business development operations, in addition to relationship management with OPIE'...
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  DSUSA Names New Executive Director Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA), announced that Glenn Merry will become executive director on August 27. Merry will be the fourth leader in the 51-year history of the organization. The DSUSA board of directors noted appreciation of Kirk Bauer's 36 yea...