Unemployment, neurological deficit, and some treatments increase the likelihood adult survivors of childhood cancer retain a fear of recurrence or SMN.
Cindy Mullins' life was changed drastically after a routine kidney surgery led to a complication requiring doctors to partially amputate all four of her limbs. Then, a total stranger who heard of ...
Children coming in with "lost limbs" and "single bullet wounds to the head" were just some of the difficult experiences they recalled. They said many patients had injuries which were so severe ...
A recent trial tested one new integration technique, which involves surgically reconstructing muscle pairs that give recipients a sense of the position and movement of a bionic limb. Signals from ...
Nobody should lose their limb or their life in order to have the basic necessity of a home," she wrote on Facebook. Since then, the team's volunteers really tried to "look out for [Langille]" and ...
Scientists found a “big”-eyed creature with “elongated limbs” in a canyon of Iran and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Nazarov, Nabizadeh, Rajabizadeh, Melnikov ...
When I was a medical student in the 1980s, the school hired “pelvic instructors” who taught us how to do exams in a painless and respectful way. They even allowed us to perform practice ...
A 15-year-old teenager from Goregaon, Mumbai, became the youngest person in the world to undergo a shoulder-level limb transplant, her doctor told Times of India in a Sept 29 report. Anamta Ahmad ...
A woman lost all her limbs after doing a perfectly 'normal' thing as she walked into her home. Marie Trainer had just returned from the time of her life in the spring of 2019 after enjoying a tropical ...
Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is a severe complication of peripheral artery disease (PAD). PAD occurs when plaque builds up in blood vessels that deliver blood from the heart to other areas.