I have to admit that I really like to hear about all of the medical
advances using new technologies.  Of course it is only going to
accelerate and get better.  This is some interesting work using carbon nanotubes to assist in bone healing.

Carbon nanotubes help heal broken bones.
Carbon nanotubes make an ideal scaffold for the growth of bone tissue,
chemist Robert Haddon of the University of California, Riverside, has
found.

The new technique could change the way doctors treat broken bones, allowing them to simply inject … [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News]