10th November 2016
Giving an amputee the opportunity to walk again is rewarding work. Seeing that person running towards you on the prosthetic leg you fitted, to give you a great big hug, is even better. That’s why Roger Gonzalez does what ...
8th November 2016
Pneumonia kills more children than and other infectious disease. Simple counting beads could speed up diagnosis – and increase survival rates 920,136 children. That is the number of kids who died of pneumonia in 2015. Nine hundred and twenty thousand, one hundred and ...
20th May 2016
Meet the Syrian students who dropped out of college to set up a mobile clinic that brings artificial limbs to war victims. Amjad Hajj Khamis and his colleague, Abdalrahim Khlouf, have made and fitted around 5,000 prosthetic limbs to victims of ...
15th December 2015
It looks like a makeshift wetsuit, but it’s not for surfers. The so-called non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) uses the power of compression to stop women from bleeding to death in childbirth. It’s really that simple. The NASG was ...
18th August 2015
Vaccines are a base to medicine, just as the way they are placed in our body: with a needle and a syringe. It has been so for the last 160 years. Biomedical engineering in Australia stomped and decided it’s time ...
22nd April 2015
New gadgets allow you to check your kids’ vital signs without rushing to hospital Have you ever been awoken in the middle of the night by your child's cry? I know I have. They wake because they are hungry. Or ...
21st April 2015
When young children are diagnosed with diabetes, the news can be shocking both for them and their families. Yet, once the initial worry has passed, getting into the daily routine of testing and shots can even be a laugh… The ...
7th April 2015
Welcome to sub-Saharan Africa, where innovative health care isn’t always about cutting-edge medical technology. It’s just as likely to be about having a reliable motorcycle. In this respect, UK-based charity Riders for Health is leading the way. Ex-motorbike ...
23rd March 2015
From an early age, David Sengeh knew more about prosthetic limbs than he would have wanted. Raised in Sierra Leone during a brutal civil war, he saw loved ones lose arms and legs during vicious assaults. 8,000 men, women and children ...
12th March 2015
I don't think there’s anything more adorable than kids with glasses. It probably started when I saw Jerry Maguire... Photo: Jonathan Lipnicki I got my first pair of glasses when I was 7. And I was absolutely thrilled about it. ...