October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Emily Vukovic was at Greta’s Flair on Ottawa St. in Hamilton looking at the bra and prosthesis options they carry for people that have had a mastectomy or ...

No prosthetic will ever help Kathy Smith forget that she had a mastectomy in December 2015. The breast cancer survivor has ...

What is dense breast tissue? Breast density is a measure of how much fibrous and glandular tissue (also known as fibroglandular tissue) there is in your breast, as compared to fat tissue. It isn’t ...

External breast prostheses are an important adjunct to the treatment of breast cancer in women. Although the majority of women wear a breast prosthesis after mastectomy, very little independent ...

Share on Pinterest The FDA will now require all mammography reports to include whether a person has breast density, which is a breast cancer risk factor. Johnny Greig/Getty Images The FDA’s new ...

The team claims the functional prosthesis meets the needs of a person who has lost a hand. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa Researchers have created the first prosthetic hand ...

It is the first magnetically controlled prosthetic hand that allows amputees to reproduce all movements simply by thinking and to control the force applied when grasping fragile objects.

IN A TALK she gave in 2016, Katie Hinde, a biologist from Arizona State University, lamented how little scientific attention was commanded by breast milk. Up until that point, she said ...

It turns out “Suits: L.A.” had 12 million reasons to relocate from Vancouver, where it shot its pilot, to actual Los Angeles. OK, 12,000,001 if you count the title. The latest list includes ...

Mammography facilities now have to notify patients about the density of their breasts, a step aimed at improving early detection of breast cancer. The new rule, which went into effect Tuesday ...