Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t. This was partly because they confronted two new ...

Patients of Sunderland hand surgeon Leslie Irwin are being recalled as part of an investigation.

A Lancashire woman chose to have her right hand amputated after a one-inch-long dog scratch left her with the ‘suicide disease’. Gill Haddington, 48, had her right leg amputated below the knee on May ...

One of the three participants received a complex amputation that involved grafting the residual nerves to new muscle or skin, and she no longer experiences a phantom limb, researchers said. The other ...

When Mark Depledge injured his hand at work six years ago, he never would have imagined the diagnosis he was about to receive.