functionality

Man, 20, recovering from Covid after losing 80% lung functionality

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A recovering Covid-19 patient who called his family from intensive care to say goodbye after 80 per cent of his lungs stopped functioning has told how he was so weak he couldn’t even tell them he loved them.  Jay Clack, 20, from Cambridgeshire, has asthma, an underlying condition known to exacerbate Covid-19. He contracted the … Read more

Scientists develop a prosthetic hand that is able to restore over 90 per cent of functionality

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A prosthetic hand that can grip and move like a normal hand could restore over 90 per cent of functionality to people with upper-limb amputations, developers claim.   A team of orthopedists, industrial designers and patients worked with scientists from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, on the artificial hand named Hannes. The limb was designed … Read more