Boston Children's Hospital physicians report the first cases of children benefiting from 3D printing of their anatomy before undergoing high-risk brain procedures. The four children had ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Lisa Stiffler on May 10 ...

A team of engineers and pediatric orthopedic surgeons are using 3D printing to help train surgeons and shorten surgeries for the most common hip disorder found in children ages 9 to 16. In a recent ...

Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital started using 3D-printed copies of patients' affected body parts to prepare for procedures last year. Now, that move has helped save the lives of four children ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – The use of 3D printing has long ...

Atrium Health’s Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is one of a handful of sites nationwide with the ability to turn computer models into 3D replicas of children’s hearts. These models can then be used ...

How can 3D printing be used to train medical students and what are some of the benefits? Slide tracheoplasty is a relatively rare procedure where a narrow section of airway is divided and the healthy ...

Dr. Redmond P. Burke, chief of cardiovascular surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, holds a 3D-printed heart model. The program is the first in the region to use 3D printing technology to create a ...

Chronic hepatic encephalopathy (CHE) is a serious neurological complication linked to chronic liver diseases. Particularly ...

Neil Mardis’ journey to becoming a pioneer in using 3-D printers to improve medicine began with a guess. The Children’s Mercy Hospital radiologist was sitting in a meeting with some orthopedic ...