Nick Ternette, seen in a file image below, is angry about the amputation of his legs but learning to accept it, his wife says. (CBC)Well-known Winnipeg activist Nick Ternette was in intensive care on Thursday after both his legs were amputated due to a massive infection.
Winnipeg activist Nick Ternette
Ternette, 64, was admitted to the Health [...]
HEYBRIDGE-based former Paralympic champion Danny Crates failed in his bid to win his last ever 800m race coming in third at the London Grand Prix on Friday.
But it was still a fitting farewell to a remarkable athlete who in recent months has been struggling with a hamstring problem.
Crates, who won the T46 800m gold at [...]
Iron-binding drug could help diabetics heal stubborn wounds, says Stanford/Einstein study
Posted On: July 27, 2009 – 9:40pm
STANFORD, Calif. — A drug used to remove iron from the body could help doctors fight one of diabetes’ cruelest complications: poor wound healing, which can lead to amputation of patients’ toes, feet and even legs.
The drug, deferoxamine, [...]
By Michael Hoffman – Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jul 27, 2009 15:40:44 EDT
Airman 1st Class Colton Read looked up from his hospital bed into the face of his wife. A tube down his throat kept him from talking.
Fighting back tears, Jessica Read told her 20-year-old husband that doctors had amputated his [...]
By KAREN ZRAICK
Published: July 27, 2009
A police officer whose left leg had to be amputated after he was struck by a car while on duty in Brooklyn two weeks ago left the hospital on Monday afternoon, saying more with a gesture than he did with words.
Instead of being pushed out of Kings County Hospital [...]
By: Janice Tai
Singapore's own "blade runner" Md Shariff Abdullah
Sportsman Md Shariff Abdullah takes marathon races in his stride, beating many others. What sets him apart is his prosthetic left leg.
Furthermore, he is poised to be Singapore’s first blade runner, just like South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius, once he gets a special prosthetic leg [...]
BERLIN — The world’s only recipient of two full arms in a landmark transplant operation said on Wednesday he expected to soon be able to toast the success of the procedure with a good Bavarian beer.
Arm transplant patient Karl Merk
Karl Merk, a dairy farmer from the southern German city of Munich, lost both arms [...]
The Department of Health has today published details for the ‘Third Sector
Investment Programme’ for the Innovation, Excellence and Service
Development Fund for 2010-11.
The Innovation Excellence and Service Development information pack 2010-11
will be available later today at www.dh.gov.uk/thirdsectorinvestment .
If you intend to apply please ensure you have read the information pack
before starting on your application form.
To note:
This [...]
I’ve been contacted by Patrick Cox whose message below is self-explanatory.
You can check out his Website on:Â http://www.malecancer.net./ to get an idea of what it’s all about.
Patrick says:
I represent a male cancer charity who is seeking a bold and daring
male amputee to pose naked for a male cancer campaign. Asking if you could
post this [...]
Please go to the Sitting Volleyball page for the latest update from David Rijvers.
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19 year old Evan Reynolds lost his left hand in a road traffic accident in 2006 when his arm became trapped between the side of a car and a gatepost. LEIGH DAY & CO. solicitors were able to secure Evan substantial damages which will cover the future costs of his Touch Bionics i-LIMBâ„¢ prosthetic which [...]
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