But even now, amputation rates remain high in Sierra Leone due to motorbike accidents, poor medical care and delayed ...

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

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.” ...

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 ...

The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws ...

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

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

A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone.

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 ...

Olga Rudnieva is supporting Ukrainian soldiers who have lost limbs in the front line to return from injury even stronger.

I have a fundamental right to be protected by my government, especially in times of war. My children and I deserve to return ...