GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A University of Michigan graduate is back in the Mitten State this week to raise awareness and funding for amputees. Nicole Ver Kuilen was just 10 years old when she lost ...

The prosthesis itself won't even touch his skin. "Instead of having the weight of your body on the external skin of your stump, you're taking it on the end of the bone like you're supposed to," Reff ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For many amputees, the process of getting an additional prosthetic can be costly. One Michigan native, set out to bring awareness to that very issue. Nicole Ver Kuilen lost her ...

A 31,000 year-old skeleton has been discovered to be the oldest case of a limb amputation ever found. According to a paper published on September 7 in the journal Nature, the skeleton was that of a ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A Haysville science teacher is about to become an experiment herself. Sondra Stieber’s forearm, which had to be amputated last year, will be replaced by a robotic arm she’ll ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Edmund Rath, a 53-year-old from Austria, wants to do simple things such as brush his teeth and slice bread. Most people take such activities for granted but not Rath, who lost his ...

MATHEW McHugh is not the type of bloke to let a little thing like losing a foot leave him stumped. Bad pun, but it’s the kind of humour the 32-year-old has thrived on since doctors were forced to ...

A pair of proteins could help regenerate amputated limbs. When applied to amputated toes, the proteins encouraged both bone and joint growth in mice. Joints are structurally complex, so even for ...