The news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted its 14-year ban on the use of silicone implants for breast augmentation and reconstructive surgery raises an interesting question: ...

When you have a prosthetic device implanted in your body, how do you retrieve information about it? You can’t look at the bottom for a model number and you don’t want to go under the knife to find the ...

The bodyhacking movement — inserting electronic implants under the skin containing information or radio frequency identification technology — is starting to take hold, and such devices may soon find ...

In modern times, a portable storage device isn't far from our possession. Either we can use the storage on our phones or tablets, or we keep a small flash drive on a keychain. Accessing the data, ...

The implantation of a medical device in the body is often just the beginning of the story. Once a device is firmly implanted, the ability to trace and identify it can often be as important as the ...