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3D-Printed Cast Uses Ultrasound To Speed Healing

Michelle Starr | CNET | April 24, 2014

A stylish-looking 3D-printed cast for broken bones uses an ultrasonic pulse generator to help stimulate the growth of new bone.  The wonderful thing about new ideas is that they are often spun off into combinations with other ideas into something excitingly different.

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In Stunning Win For Open Science, Johnson & Johnson Decides To Release Its Clinical Trial Data To Researchers

Matthew Herper | Forbes Magazine | January 30, 2014

Today, Johnson & Johnson JNJ +0.07% is taking a major step toward changing that, not only for drugs like the blood thinner Xarelto or prostate cancer pill Zytiga but also for the artificial hips and knees made for its orthopedics division or even consumer products. “You want to know about Listerine trials? They’ll have it,” says Harlan Krumholz of Yale University, who is overseeing the group that will release the data to researchers.

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