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Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis

Posted by Unknown on from the just-inject-techno-organic-virus-instead dept.

erice writes about the case of Nicola Wilding: "Injured in crash which damaged the nerves in her arm, she has reached the limits that can what be accomplished with nerve transplants. She can move her arm but doctors have given up hope of restoring use of her hand. So she wants doctors to amputate the hand and replace it with a bionic version that does work." The doctor, Oskar C. Aszmann, first performed a similar operation last year.

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  1. Already happened in Austria by aBaldrich · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it was also covered by the BBC.

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  2. Re:Sounds good. by EdIII · · Score: 4, Informative

    But I hear they have cookies.