A Florida teen is currently recovering after having surgery to amputate her 174-lb. leg, caused by a rare lymphomatous tumor ...

A Bradenton teen is recovering from a nearly 17-hour surgery where doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St.

Florida teen undergoes 17-hour surgery to amputate 170-pound leg that grew so fast she had to use a wheelchair - 14-year-old ...

A typical day on the farm turned deadly for Kurt Kaser when he got stuck in a grain auger and had to amputate his leg with a pen knife. “I didn’t know what to do,” he told the World-Herald on Tuesday.

"This past June I began having trouble walking & went to my surgeon. He determined I had MRSA in both legs & they needed to be amputated immediately," Jimmy Rave wrote on Twitter Digital News Writer, ...

It's hard to imagine anyone wanting to lose a limb. But for people living with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), it’s a burning desire that haunts them every day of their lives. For "John," ...

The decision to salvage or amputate a severely injured limb is one of the most difficult an orthopaedic surgeon may face. The inclination to undertake heroic measures to save the limb should be ...

Courtney is a big booty cutie that wanted to downsize her backside on the latest episode of "Botched," but Doctors Paul Nassif and Terry Dubrow's only suggestion to fix all the junk in her trunk was ...

LOS ANGELES – LOS ANGELES -- Zsa Zsa Gabor was doing well after surgery to amputate her right leg -- an operation that doctors said was necessary to save her life, her publicist said Friday. Gabor's ...

Ants bite off injured limbs of fellow ants in an emergency in order to ensure their survival, a study has found. The Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus) amputate limbs as a precautionary ...