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Medical & healthcare

Robot octopus arm could lead to safer surgery

Facial recognition cane alerts blind people to friends and family

'Leg bank' automates and simplifies development of prosthetic sockets

Bio-organic device delivers body's own painkiller to block pain from damaged nerves

Business and industry react to the General Election result

Mobile microscope will help battle diseases

Laser process promises improved treatment for vein disease

Boosting the benefits of MRI for people with medical implants

Election special: which party is voting for engineering?

Portable device diagnoses sepsis within 15 minutes

Low cost device aims to prevent deaths from postpartum haemorrhage

Engineering in the NHS: preventing infection and moving materials