After losing a leg to injury or disease, women adjusting to life with a prosthetic limb face the same challenges as men, with perhaps one added complication: how to wear high-heels? A team of Johns ...

Experts say it’s not uncommon for patients who need prostheses to be denied by insurance. “It’s not a matter of if, but when, ...

Women who get a prosthetic foot after losing a leg to disease or injury have limited shoe options, but an invention by five Johns Hopkins University students may change that. The university announced ...

Buttercup was hatched last year in a high school%27s biology laboratory He was born with a backward left foot It was amputated in February because he could not walk well on it NASHVILLE, Tenn. — ...

(FORT COLLINS, Colo) — When Garrison Hayes was only six years old, his life took a sudden turn when doctors discovered osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in his left leg. His options were limited, and led to ...

Over the span of a year, 17-year-old Ashley Kimbel went from being a regular teen at Grissom High School in Alabama to a hero for a retired Marine. When the budding engineer met Kendall Bane, a ...

A woman who wears a prosthetic leg has revealed that she still has both of her feet - with one attached to her thigh. Emily Fogly, 27, who had pediatric bone cancer, had part of her knee removed after ...

Sports have been a constant presence in Sebastian Bonaiuto’s life for as long as he can remember. The 16-year-old Kingstowne resident has been swimming and playing football since he was in elementary ...

A team of Johns Hopkins University students, working with a Johns Hopkins physician and outside prosthetics experts, has developed an early version of a potential solution. Called the "Prominence," it ...