BALTIMORE – Angela Manning lost her left leg to diabetic vascular disease but it didn’t stop her from wearing chunky, colorful, attention-grabbing high heels. “I just ordered five pairs … and they are ...

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BOSTON (WBZ) — Ten years after the explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line that forced doctors to amputate part of Heather Abbott’s leg, she says the biggest change in her life is her work with ...

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – Heather Abbott rarely wore flats before she became one of the many people to lose a leg in the Boston Marathon bombings. She calls herself a “professional heel-wearer” and ...

Above-the-knee amputees would find it easier to walk with prosthetics inspired by ostrich legs rather than ones designed to look like human legs, according to a study by the Wellcome Trust and the ...

(AP) A Rhode Island victim of the Boston Marathon bombings has a new prosthetic leg that will allow her to wear her favorite high heels. Heather Abbott of Newport showed off the prosthetic Thursday at ...