From 1991 to 2002, conflict in the West African country created some 28,000 amputees. Amputation by machete was one terror ...

Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, despite the lessons learned in the Civil War and the ...

They forgot I had one leg,” the 45-year-old laughed. The trainer at a center for amputee farmers picked himself up and added: “We fall and we rise.” ...

Nurse Riham Awad roams daily among the tents of displaced persons in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, to ...

The city has marked the Battle of Nashville for decades. Now, a new effort is underway to preserve Fort Negley.

Scholars often depict the American Civil War as an early watershed ... Surgeons performed 60,000 amputations during the war, spending as little as three minutes per limb. Yet, a momentous change ...

A contractor for Amtrak removed the final ruins of an 1866 rail bridge from the Susquehanna River last month, despite ...

It was a gruesome find. Limb bones with saw marks. Skulls cut in half. Long ribs, pelvic bones and sections of vertebrae. Over 4,000 human bones and bone fragments in all, tumbled together in a pit ...

The denial of orthotic shoes to treat a diabetic condition that led to a severe wound and amputation. Nineteen years locked in ... But prisoners and civil-rights attorneys have said that it is now ...

After the amputations ... She wasn't the only one. Ukrainian civil society quickly rallied round, both to support the war effort - fundraising for drones and vehicles, importing medical equipment ...

Ahmed Abu Obayda was injured during a missile strike in February ... were so severely injured that he needed two below-the-knee amputations. Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency physician in Saratoga ...