Sharon Jacks is suing her surgeon, members of a surgical team and a Marietta hospital after she said doctors amputated the ...

Adults aged 50-54 with severely narrowed leg arteries had a higher risk of amputation after emergency surgery on leg arteries than people aged 80-84, according to an analysis in the journal ...

A 65-year-old man with a painful, swollen left great toe walked into a clinic carrying far more than an ordinary foot complaint. Pus was draining from the joint, the overlying skin had begun to die, ...

More than 400 Americans undergo major amputation of a leg, either above or below the knee, every day. Many of them suffer from what’s known as chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a form of ...

“It’s a blessing,” the head coach said of his new toes ...

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For hours on end last year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ran the brain-controlled robotic limb through its paces, testing its capabilities on a series of patients ...

In November 2021, Robert Jones of Oakland, Calif., went to the emergency room. He thought his right big toe was infected, and he had a fever. He didn’t think too much of it, figuring they would give ...

Deion Sanders celebrated being “10 toes down again” after receiving two prosthetic toes four years after his amputation.

A face-down burial of a middle-aged woman who died around 700 years ago in China is the world's first evidence of punitive nasal amputation.