By Anne Cacherell After his son Kalem died in an ATV accident in December 2004, Bill Millard donated his son’s organs to Janice MacKinnon’s son Jake, who is diabetic and in need of a pancreas transplant. Ten years later, Janice is returning back the kindness by donating her organ to Bill, who has kidney failure…
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This Hand Transplant May Mean Bad News For the Prosthetic Market
By Richard K. Noots Little Zion was a poor boy without hands and feet. The reason? A nasty infection that almost killed him managed to be staved off by removing what we all would consider the most important part of our limbs. However, that never deterred Zion. Instead, he continued to do all the normal things a…
“I Want to Live,” were Almost This Guy’s Last Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BbxnVfS4M By Richard K. Noots Will Lautzenheiser went to the hospital for what he thought was just a pulled muscle. He soon founded out he would be without his arms and a leg. As he stared at what he thought would be the end of his life, he decided that living was the most important…
Is 3D Printing About to Explode? What You Need to Know About This Emerging Technological Empire
Image by: Nyxchaotica By: Giovanni Fields I’ll admit that before delving into this article I was completely ignorant as to what the whole 3D printing craze was about. The way I imagined it to function was similar to that of traditional paper and ink printing, except instead of just flat paper and ink, the results would resemble some…
