The value of the transmetatarsal amputation in diabetic patients was first reported in 1949 by McKittrick and his co-workers. 1 It has frequently been used since then at the New England Deaconess ...

A "slow developing" symptom in the feet could be an early warning sign of high cholesterol and even serious heart conditions.

As a result, he introduces the ground-breaking Smart Boot™, a highly effective tool that comes into play before the conversation of amputation arises.

Humans were performing amputations earlier than thought A new find in Borneo puts the advent of surgery back by almost 24,000 years. Sep 7th 2022. Share. Listen to this story.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a ...

NEW YORK — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation ...

The remains of a hunter-gatherer in Borneo who survived an amputation predate other Stone Age surgeries by tens of thousands of years, researchers say.