Modern surgery began with saws and iron hands – how amputation transformed the body in the Renaissance

Amputation was seen as a last resort because of the high risk of death. But some Europeans started to believe they could use it along with artificial limbs to shape the body. This ...
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A Groundbreaking Prosthetic Lets Amputees Literally Control Their Limb with Their Brain

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.
USA Today

Novel surgery meets bionics in breakthrough for limb amputation

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 ...
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America’s amputation crisis (Part 2 of 4): The evident double standard costing patients their limbs

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 ...