Despite the difficult and dangerous conditions, the above-the-knee amputation itself took only about 10 minutes ... Because doing this work in the field definitely has the potential to save lives.

The 30-year-old Australian field hockey player broke his finger in training earlier this month and faced an operation that would've sidelined him from the Olympics as part of a four to six-month ...

Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed. Amputations were the most common operation of the war, ...