Plaster casts are blank canvases for friends and family to post their get well messages. But if it’s holiday season, adding blinky LED lights to them is called for. When [Dr Lucy Rogers] hurt ...

Plaster casts are blank canvases for friends and family to post their get well messages. But if it’s holiday season, adding blinky LED lights to them is called for. When [Dr Lucy Rogers] hurt… ...

Evill figured there had to be a better solution (there wasn’t). So the young designer set about creating his own. Called the Cortex cast, Evill’s new take on the plaster cast is a 3D-printed ...

Plaster casts have changed relatively little in the 300 years they have existed, but the treatment has just been given a 21st century makeover. A new 3D-printed cast has recently won an award for ...

Is that icon of medicine, the plaster cast, about to be superseded as the best way to heal a broken ankle? The latest evidence suggests that ankles may heal faster and better if patients are ...

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot.