The Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus) amputate limbs as a precautionary measure to save the lives of wounded nestmates – a behaviour that was previously only known in humans.

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 ...

Exposing how ignorance and stigma in the medical community lead to preventable amputations among young homeless drug users in ...

In July, Matilda had surgery to amputate her leg above the knee to stop the cancer from spreading. The former Herne Bay High pupil told KentOnline: “It was weird at first because it still felt ...

Andrey Rublev can laugh about it now, but the tennis star was just hours away from losing a testicle. Not long after his fourth round exit at this year’s US Open, Rublev felt pain in one of ...

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The Russian jokingly added that he got super lucky because just before going into surgery he signed papers permitting doctors to amputate his testicle to save his life if it comes to that.