CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

While losing a limb is a life-changing experience, it's important to remember that you don't have to go through an amputation alone. Your post-operative care will involve an interdisciplinary team ...

Bionic limbs, long the stuff of science fiction fantasy, are becoming reality. An extremely rare vascular disease caused New Hampshire’s Morgan Stickney, a pre-med student and elite swimmer, to have ...

FRIDAY, Nov. 30, 2018 -- Climbing enthusiast Jim Ewing lost his left foot in the aftermath of a 50-foot fall off a Cayman Islands cliff. But Ewing is scaling rock walls again with the aid of a robotic ...

Researchers report an amputation method that enabled greater precision of movement and a reduction in pain in a prospective study. Typical amputation procedures disrupt neuromuscular relationships and ...

Yet these amputation procedures receive automatic insurance approval with no questions asked, no prior authorization, and no evidence review. There is no credible medical evidence suggesting that ...

Evidence that a child in a hunter-gatherer society survived amputation offers a remarkable insight into the origins of surgery. It challenges the current view that such procedures emerged alongside ...

Bachelor Nation's Cam Ayala is meeting life's challenges with a smile on his face. Cam, who appeared on the 15th season of The Bachelorette and the sixth season of Bachelor in Paradise in 2019, ...

The skeleton indicated that the patient had recovered from the surgery. Scientists have discovered remarkable evidence that the first known successful limb amputation on a human occurred about 31,000 ...