She was a national-level volleyball player who lost a leg in a train accident. This incident changed her life forever but did not defeat her spirit.

An 80-year-old man from Leicester says he has become "a prisoner in my own home" after having his leg amputated. Bryan ...

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

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

A Manitoba woman suffering from a post-surgery infection says she's going to lose her leg because a surgeon started a ...

Rudnieva has provided prostheses and trauma therapy to over 1,000 amputees Serhiy Petchenko lost ... high-quality prosthetics and reconstructive surgery. Her passionate presentation, explaining ...

Frédérique Bérubé Perron’s remarkable rise on the Canadian wheelchair tennis scene began just a couple of years ago.

The company is building a thin, flexible muscle implant to allow amputees a wider, more natural range of movement just by thinking about the gestures they want to make. “Not many people use ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — The first study comparing surgery to active monitoring as treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) finds women who carefully monitor the precancerous cells are no more ...

Serhiy Petchenko lost both hands while defending Ukraine from Russian invaders in June 2023. After surviving the bitter months-long battle for the city of Bakhmut, his injury came in a railway ...

Created by CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program, the Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation. It analyzes the ...

This is a small sampling of women artists and their works in the vast visual arts collections of the Smithsonian. American women photographers have also made their mark. The Smithsonian tells the ...