If you’ve got a toe to spare, surgeons say it might just be the best swap-out that nature has to offer.

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 ...

The strong bands are used to stop catastrophic bleeding – but if left on for too long they can cause tissue death ...

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 ...

Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have been observed biting off the injured limbs of nestmates, depending on the location of the ...

Diabetes silently fuelling heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and long-term disability, experts warn.