Carpenter ants are not squeamish when it comes to caring for the wounded. To minimize the risk of infection, the insects immediately amputate injured legs—thereby more than doubling their survival ...

World Champion Wrestling alum Marcus “Buff” Bagwell is opening up about his decision to amputate his leg after “five years of torture.” In a candid YouTube video shared July 18, Bagwell explained that ...

Cindy Mullins' life was changed drastically after a routine kidney surgery led to a complication requiring doctors to partially amputate all four of her limbs. Then, a total stranger who heard of her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucinda Mullins' life-changing ordeal began with a kidney stone the size of a grain of sand. It set off an infection and sepsis, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Joy the dog was rescued after being abandoned with a broken leg ...

A kayaker who got trapped in surging rapids in the Australian bush is fighting for his life after having his leg amputated during a 20-hour rescue mission. The man in his 60s was kayaking with friends ...

The police in the state of Tasmania said all other efforts to help the man, a foreign tourist in his 60s, failed before the decision was made to amputate. By John Yoon A kayaker’s leg was amputated on ...

A Bradenton teen is recovering from a nearly 17-hour surgery where doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital amputated her left leg. When Jasmine Ramirez was two-years-old, her family noticed ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realized their mistake. "I was shocked when I lifted the sheets and saw they ...