For some time now, we've been hearing about prosthetic limbs that are designed to work with amputees' bodies. MIT researchers are taking a different approach, though, with a new type of amputation ...

A novel surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help them better control their prosthetics. A study published Monday in Nature Medicine ...

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 ...

Today, in India, there are more than 63 million people living with diabetes, second only to China, as per the latest 5th Diabetes Atlas statistics. Being a disease of the blood vessels diabetes ...

SEATTLE — Control of blood glucose levels at 7% Hb1AC or under was found to be a positive predictor for a transmetatarsal amputation healing successfully in patients with diabetes mellitus, according ...

New advances in orthopedics have reduced by 50 percent the number of amputations deemed necessary for bone cancer patients around the world, speakers said Friday at a symposium in Orlando. Dr. William ...

FOR more than ten years there has been a tendency to use below-the-knee rather than supracondylar amputation at the New England Deaconess Hospital in the management of diabetic gangrene when more ...

There's a glass jar in 13-year-old Erica Silvey's household that contains the monetary penalty for saying the word "can't." It holds only a quarter. She has said the forbidden word once. Asking for ...