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 ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Many kids born with heart defects need surgery to save their lives but it can be difficult for doctors to visualize the abnormalities before going to the operating room. As Dr. Mallika ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 25 -- Congenital heart experts from Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital have successfully integrated two common imaging techniques to produce a three-dimensional ...

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 ...

Melitta McNarry received funding from Sport Wales in the form of Illuminate Funding. This past summer has seen a mini revolution: worried parents rejoiced as their children tore themselves away from ...

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 ...

Ready to turn a simple photo into a professional 3D model? In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to create a 3D ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 – St. Louis Children’s Hospital is ...