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 ...

Children's cardiac surgery has been revolutionised by the development of 3D-printed models of patients' hearts, a leading consultant has said. Southampton Children's Hospital has created more than 100 ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A baby boy survived half a dozen heart defects thanks to doctors at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC). It was a team effort of cardiac specialists and surgeons that included ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese firm Fasotec is partnering with Hiroo Ladies Clinic to offer customers 3D-printed models of their unborn children. The process costs ¥100,000, or about $1,275. Japanese firm Fasotec is ...

Telling somebody that you’re going to make their dreams come true is a bold, and potentially kind of creepy, claim. But it’s one of those things that isn’t supposed to be taken literally; it doesn’t ...

For more than five years, one man has been creating 3D models of every single monster in Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th edition, and giving away those digital files for free, so people with 3D printers can ...