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Quadruple Amputee Is Cooking Up a New Life

(Nov. 23) -- Call it an appetite for life. Just two years after a blood infection nearly killed her and claimed all four of her limbs, Cheryl Douglass is back full force. She dances at her son's wedding, chops scallions for Thanksgiving dinner with her prosthetic hands and is writing a cookbook for amputees with a...

Shark Attack Survivors Fight to Save Sharks

(Oct. 6) -- Captain Ahab would be appalled. A group of shark attack survivors, all of whom either lost limbs or suffered permanent injury in their attacks, came together in New York City recently to fight for the very predator that nearly killed them. On Sept. 13, the Pew Environment Group held a press conference in which...

How to Amputate Your Own Arm Like Aron Ralston in '127 Hours'

(Aug. 26) -- In "127 Hours," the new film by Danny Boyle, James Franco plays Aron Ralston, the mountaineer who (SPOILER ALERT!) was forced to amputate his own arm after he got it trapped between a fallen boulder and a sandstone wall while solo-climbing a Utah canyon back in '03. Watch more YouTube videos on AOL...

Amputations Without Anesthesia in NKorea

(July 15) -- North Korea's health system is in dire shambles, with amputations being performed without anesthesia, often under candlelight in impoverished hospitals where doctors are paid in cigarettes. That's according to a report released today by Amnesty International, outlining disastrous medical conditions in the...

With Arm Stuck in Boiler, Man Contemplated Suicide

(June 22) -- The Connecticut man who tried self-amputation after his arm got stuck in his boiler says he contemplated suicide during the two days he was trapped in his basement and attempted to say goodbye to his loved ones by writing a note in his own splattered blood. In an interview broadcast today, Jonathan Metz, 31,...

Background on amputation

Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.

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