Are shaping up. And harnessing the power of sd printing in health care. We meet the firm thats revolutionising the way artificial limbs are made making them cheaper and easier for those who need them most. And as you are hearing. Like it or loath it facebook is bigger more profitable and more controversial than ever. What do you think about that . Has it got too much influence . Just use the bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with facebook because despite the ongoing controversy over everything from fake news to extremist and violent content the Social Networkjust keeps getting bigger and more profitable. Facebook has been warning for some time it cant keep growing at this rate but the latest results show no sign of a slowdown. Facebook made profits ofjust over 3 billion in the first three months of this year. Thats a jump of more than 76 on the same period last year and more than investors were expecting. And it is creeping ever closer to two billion users 1. 91;
have to go in and fight, then he has to go, then he has to make the decision. but i am happy with him. france fly half romain ntamack has been ruled out of a home rugby world cup because of a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. ntamack injured his left knee in a world cup warm up win over scotland. ntamack limped off the field in the second half and underwent a scan on his knee on monday. the world champions new zealand will face england on the final day of wxv, a new women s rugby union competition launching in october. the three tier competition aims to offer consistent annual fixtures for sides outside of world cup years. each tier has six countries who ve qualified via continental tournaments and play offs. the final placings are determined by a points table. and that s all the sport for now. from driverless cars to sd printing, artificial intelligence has been transforming how we live. but could ai one day be capable of reading our minds?
word, cancer,’ so you imagine it can spread here, there and everywhere. in a number of cases of lung, bone or metastatic breast cancer, removing the area around the tumour means the need to take away some of the chest wall. but here, sd printing is being used to help create something that can replace what s been removed. the way we reconstruct the chest wall is important to preserve the stability of the chest wall and to preserve the way and the breathing mechanic. before sd printing, there were several different methods. the first was to use the methyl methacrylate. it s been used by orthopaedics and thoracic surgeons for many years. this cement was modelled at the time of surgery on the patient, just to create a fixed area, like, to replace the ribs or the sternum removed at the time of surgery. then, the sd printed started and we started to use the titanium.
and everything along the way, it lljust be made straight away in a material like this polymer, which is called peek, which can be sterilised and then used inside someone s body. i did ask at the time how long this material they use would last and i was told it last at least 200 years, which would seen me out, yeah! but then, i never thought of asking at the time how strong that is compared to bone. but apparently, it s as good as bone, so. time will tell! wow, it really does seem like sd printing is finding a place in healthcare. how did the replacement bones look in the flesh, as it were? impressive. but what was really fascinating to me was that i imagine our bones are really perfect like the ones that you see on a skeleton in a school classroom. yeah, yeah, yeah. but they re not. yeah, right. 0k, well, let s stick
but prosthetics made from titanium are expensive, so this team has developed a novel way using sd printing. this is the sd printed model of the prosthesis. i place that into a box and then, mix these two parts together. i pour them over this plastic printed part. then, once that silicone like, the liquid silicon cures after about 4 6 hours, then i remove the printed part and that leaves a cavity in the exact same shape of the patient s anatomy, and that is then sterilised and taken into theatre. in thoracic surgery, when you are removing this area, rather than having three ribs, you are creating, like, a big square of cement. very good to protect your lung. yeah. ..but there was not a good functional result. so moving from using the same material, you get the same kind of resistance because, you know, you can break it. but also, you have the flexibility, so when you are breathing, they can move.