CLEVELAND — According to the National Institutes of Health, nearly 400 people a day lose a leg or foot to diabetes, peripheral artery disease or neuropathy. But an experimental procedure, called ...

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 ...

Yet these amputation procedures receive automatic insurance approval with no questions asked, no prior authorization, and no evidence review. There is no credible medical evidence suggesting that ...

RIVERVIEW, Mich. – It was twelve years ago, during a golf trip to Myrtle Beach, that Dr. Craig Everingham of Riverview first injured his ankle. His ball landed in the rough, near the water. The ground ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

Deion Sanders’s health issues have been well documented. The new Colorado coach has undergone several surgeries to his left foot, including getting his big toe and second toe amputated as a result of ...

Cynthia Elford loves to travel and hike, but a few years ago, her Type 1 diabetes made getting around nearly impossible. By 2018, the Pennsylvania grandmother faced the possibility of losing her right ...

Surgical site infection incidence varies considerably among clinically defined procedures in five National Healthcare Safety Network surgery categories, according to a study published in the American ...