Most amputations sever the muscle pairs that control joints such as the elbow or ankle, disrupting the sensory feedback about the limb’s position in space that would help patients control a ...

In California, where doctors performed more than 82,000 diabetic amputations from 2011 to 2017, people who were black or Latino were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to undergo ...

A human rights watchdog reported a series of abuses in Iran during July, including the execution of at least four people and ...

Iranian authorities severed the fingers of three men convicted of theft, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday. Iranian ...

Humans were performing amputations earlier than thought A new find in Borneo puts the advent of surgery back by almost 24,000 years Sep 7th 2022 | 3 min read ...

Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, spending as little as three minutes per limb. Yet, a momentous change in practices surrounding limb loss started much earlier—in 16th and ...

Stephanie Coral Browitt, the woman who suffered life-threatening burns and underwent eight amputations after a volcanic ...