After losing his arm to a musket ball in 1814, Shadrack Byfield nailed together a coffin for his severed limb and buried it ...

A recurrent character in TV documentaries, books and museum exhibits in the USA and Canada, Byfield has been celebrated as an ...

Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrach Byfield, an English ...

Amanda Mears, 42, sustained the severe injuries while getting in the middle of a vicious encounter between two of her dogs on ...

A Tennessee mom was forced to have her leg amputated after her pit bull savagely locked its jaws around the limb, leaving it ...

Just a little over a year ago, a 25-year-old woman from Madison had to have her hands and legs amputated after contracting sepsis.

A clinical trial participant shows his neural-enabled prosthetic arm at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Maryland, Oct. 22, 2025. (Ann Brandstadter/DOD) A U.S. soldier participating in a ...

A teenager born without the lower part of her right arm is seeking to raise £20,000 to buy a high-tech bionic arm she said could transform her life. Sadie, 17, from Winnersh, previously used a ...

Britt Young, writer and lecturer at UC Berkeley, explains why 3D printing has not brought down costs of prosthetic limbs. Prosthetic limbs can be expensive, costing thousands to hundreds of thousands ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Nearly a year after her harrowing medical journey began, Arisbeth Munoz couldn't stop smiling as she was fitted with her first prosthetic arm at a San Diego clinic. The 40-year-old ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV/Gray News) - A Texas lineman who lost most of his arms after being severely shocked on the job is counting his blessings as he and his family get used to his new prosthetic arms.