A study in the Journal of the American Heart Association [Disparities in Limb Salvage for Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia: Role of Income and Insurance Status] found that insurance status ...

In my years as a patient advocate, I’ve had countless conversations with healthcare executives about the economics of limb preservation versus amputation. During one particularly candid exchange at a ...

Teenager Kaydin Baldwin spent more than 100 days in the hospital after the flu caused her to become critically ill. She ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have identified a critical gap in how post-amputation pain is evaluated and treated. The study shows that pain after lower limb amputation is not a ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that the brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it ...

A new brain-controlled bionic limb has the ability to help people with leg amputations more easily navigate obstacles and walk more quickly, a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine shows.

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 ...