As a teenager in Athens, Jarryd Wallace lived inside the rhythm of running. An amputation hasn’t changed that.

The procedure is known as LimFlow therapy and the clinical trial that Elford was enrolled in not only saved her foot but found that the therapy enabled most patients to avoid amputation and experience ...

Fewer adults with diabetes are requiring foot or leg amputations as a complication of their condition, a new government study says. Between 1996 and 2008, the rate of lower-limb amputations among ...

Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease. But ...

Former Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay recently suffered a life-threatening episode of sepsis which led to the amputation of his hands and feet. He wanted to be known as the first "bionic MP" after he ...

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 ...

It’s an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and now a hand for a theft in Syria. A group of Islamic extremists has apparently chopped off a thief’s hand in Aleppo — and live-tweeted the entire gory ...