Rex Ellebracht has been doing social work across Kansas for nearly 30 years by his own estimate, but it became even more ...

A student has told how she survived multiple amputations, meningitis and sepsis during her first term at University of Southampton. Becca Heritage had to fight for her life and endured multiple ...

Passing wind unexpectedly when lifting groceries. Sex feels less satisfying. But for some women, these little signs of pelvic floor issues could add up to something much more serious. One woman found ...

TULSA, OKLA. – After years of decreasing amputations in the United States, rates of non-traumatic lower extremity amputations due to diabetes and related conditions are rising, and Oklahoma is among ...

What is pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)? Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an infection of a woman’s reproductive tract. It can affect the uterus, fallopian tubes, and the ovaries. PID can cause ...

A man who burned his thumb during a camping trip with his friends in the US has become a bilateral amputee. Max Armstrong, of Franktown - a town to the south of Denver in Colorado, went camping with ...

The consequences are still difficult to predict with accuracy. But for the moment, it has opened the biggest bilateral crisis in decades. At the turn of the century, the Iraq war was the trigger for ...

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Panama’s conservative government is preparing a charm offensive to defuse tensions with the Trump administration over the vital Panama Canal, offering closer alignment to curb the flow of ...

In less than a month, outdoorsman Max Armstrong developed sepsis and lost both of his legs — but, he says, "things can be overcome" Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Doctors “casually” floated the idea of amputation “in passing,” so he was aware of the possibility. “At first I was like, ‘No, there's no way they're taking my feet,’” he said.