Amputations

Mom Raises Funds For Prosthetics After Losing 4 Limbs To Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Prosthetic Limbs, Video, Motivational Speaker, Inspirational, Amputations, Necrotizing Fascitis, Cyndi Desjardins, Anderson Cooper, Marc Wilkens, Myelectric Prosthetics, Impact News

Cyndi Desjardins awoke from a four-week coma to find that she had lost her arms and legs, but not her fighting spirit. After contracting a rare fl...

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Man's Penis Unnecessarily Amputated By Surgeon, Lawsuit Claims

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 10.17.2011

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SHELBYVILLE, Ky. — The dispute between a Kentucky man and a surgeon over the necessity of amputating the patient's penis during surgery in 2008 ...

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Pain? What Pain?

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Rain, Pain, Jogging, Placebo, Cycling, Placebo Effect, Exercise, Sports, Sports Illustrated, Athletes, Amputations, Situations Matter, Context, Running, Sports News

The idea that there's a mental component to pain is hardly an unfamiliar one. But the more you learn about it, the full extent to which our experience with pain depends on situations is surprising.

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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: 'I Still Feel That Little Finger': Table Saw Victims Speak Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Power Tools, National-Consumers-League, Amputations, Table Saws, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Power-Saws, Slidepollajax, Phantom Pain, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A consumers' advocacy group and a panel of table-saw victims called on government regulators and the power-tool industry Wednesday to en...

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Toddler Loses Limbs When Infection Worsens During 5-Hour ER Wait: You Can Help

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strep Infection, Amputations, Emergency Room, Donations, Children's Health, Children's Hospital, Sick Children, Emergency Room Wait, Impact News

December, with all of its holiday spirit, shouldn't be a tough month for a 2-year-old. For Malyia Jeffers, however, it started with a feverish, fiv...

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Iran Amputates ANOTHER Thief's Hand in Harsh Public Display

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Hand Amputation, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Hand Amputation, Amputations, Iran Amputations, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have amputated the hand of a convicted thief in front of other prisoners, state radio reported Sunday, in a p...

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Amputee Kiera Brinkley Overcomes Obstacles To Become Dancer

AP | ABBY HAIGHT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kiera Brinkley, Amputee, Amputations, Dance, Dancing, Overcoming Adversity, Impact News

PORTLAND, Ore. — Kiera Brinkley doesn't mind curious children, and mostly brushes off the stares of adults. Every once in awhile, someone will ...

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Jay Tew And His Team: Giving New Limbs To Haitian Amputees

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prosthetic Limbs, Has, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Amputations, Amputations, Amputee, Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Jay Tew, Hanger Orthopedic Group, Haiti Earthquake Relief, William Larimer Mellon, Haiti Amputation, Haiti Aid, Impact News

When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, Jay Tew knew where he wanted to be -- helping earthquake survivors who had lost limbs find a ...

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Hilbert Potter, Disabled Kentucky Veteran, Helps Other Amputees Learn To Walk Again

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leap Program, Hilbert Potter, Kentucky Orthopedic Rehab Team, Amputations, Clay Smithers, Positively Kentuckiana, Disability, Physical Therapy, Veterans, Disabled Veterans, Kort, Lower Extremity Amputee Program, Leap, Video, Impact News

After machine gun fire claimed Hilbert Potter's leg during Operation Desert Storm, he learned to walk again with the help of a prosthetic leg and a de...

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UN Ratifies Ban On Cluster Bombs: US Still Has Not Signed

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday that the international convention banning cluster bombs has received the 30 rat...

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A Call to Arms (and Legs) in the Civil War and in the Iraq War

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Civil War, Amputations, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Casualties, Ieds Iraq, Amputations u.s Military, Iraq War Casualities, Ieds, IEDs Deaths, World News

Since 2003, American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been losing limbs at twice the rate of any previous American war. More than six percent of injured US troops require amputation.

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Kids Take Care Of Mom, Lisa Strong, Who Lost Her Arms, Legs (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Strong, Chloe Strong, Amputations, Amputee, Jesse Strong, Medical Malpractice, Emergency Room, Parenting, Kids Take Care of Mom, Kidney Stones, Video, Home News

In the Strong family, it's the children who take care of their mother. Chloe and Jesse Strong are 10 and 11-years-old. They cook and clean. Chloe ...

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Veterans Advocates Worried About Care For Troops Wounded In Afghan Surge

McClatchy | David Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suicides, Mental Health, Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Injuries, Amputees, Obama, Veterans, Shinseki, White House, Barack Obama, Surge, Homelessness, Amputations, Health Care, World News

WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration ramps up the war in Afghanistan, veterans advocates say the government must develop a better plan to handle ...

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Isn't Adequate Healthcare a Moral Issue?

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, Type 2 Diabetes, Statistics, Blindness, Moral Issues, Homosexuality, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Amputations, Ethics, Same Sex Marriage, Health Care Reform, Morality, Diabetes, Health Care, African-Americans, Gay Marriage, Kidney Disease, Home News

Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?

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