Fewer adults with diabetes are requiring foot or leg amputations as a complication of their condition, a new government study says. Between 1996 and 2008, the rate of lower-limb amputations among ...

When people with diabetes experience complications such as neuropathy (nerve damage), it's time to start arming themselves with education for protection against even greater complications like ...

Amputation rates have long been higher in rural America. But in cities, the highest rates are associated with poverty and being Black, a new study shows. Amputation rates have long been higher in ...

Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease. But ...

Former Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay recently suffered a life-threatening episode of sepsis which led to the amputation of his hands and feet. He wanted to be known as the first "bionic MP" after he ...

It’s an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and now a hand for a theft in Syria. A group of Islamic extremists has apparently chopped off a thief’s hand in Aleppo — and live-tweeted the entire gory ...