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May 16th, 2008 May 14th, 2008 ...couple and son to pay R1,1-million to an elderly man whose leg was amputated when he was shot in the ankle by the youngster during a hunting trip...
Tanzanian warrior single-handedly, (literally) shares God’s faithfulness...
Amputee confined to a wheelchair is in tears after thieves stole her van- (video)... Wensdae Williams maintains a daily vigil hoping the cruel thief who stole her van musters the decency to return it...
Tyler Dumm to be inducted into Santa Barbara’s Sports Hall of Fame...
Amputee Alister McQueen boasts one-track mind...
Out-of-order elevator costs man his leg...
Fishing boat represents amputee Ben Cooney's life changing turn-around...
"Prince Harry's hero", double amputee Ben McBean, and his comrade, triple amputee Marine Mark Ormrod, stood proudly on their new prosthetic legs to receive their Afghanistan campaign medals...
Balancing carefully on a relatively new prosthetic leg, “Dirty” Jack Brumit sprayed a clear coat of paint over the plaque...
Ed Salau slipped the stump of his left leg into a $30,000 prosthetic and headed for the top of Mt. Rainier... | Kaitlyn Lasitter talks about her ordeal... Congressman pushes for amusement park federal regulation...
Pain, cancer, loss of leg haven't slowed Kenny Bontz...
...as young as 30 are having their toes amputated in growing numbers largely because they are unaware they suffer from diabetes....
The next big thing? Jerome Rifkin's K3 Promoter mimics the jointed motion of a real foot for easier walking...
Celebrities make an impression on Tilly...
Kristin Kenney is driven. She has always been...
Using fat to regenerate body parts? | Luke Murphy, "It wasn't until I was actually allowed to stand up on a prosthesis for the first time that I realized how tough this was going to be," ...
Virginia Guffey's a woman of steel...
China: Trapped girl 'must have legs cut off'...
Jason Halcrow loses legs, clings to life after crash...
Rebecca Brewer waits at home for the promised visit by the Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon....
Amputee ex-skydiver, Nigel Rogoff, kayaking round Britain...
Amputee Lt. David Borden has long recovery at Walter Reed...
One local fan is going to the extreme, using his prosthetic leg to cheer the team to victory...
Hailey Danisewicz worries about what will be covered in the future when her $30,000 limbs wear out...
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Have you checked the Resources page? You'll find support groups, legal companies, sports groups, employment agencies, government, information and general resources. Feel free to suggest a group using the Contact Us page. May 12th, 2008 ...Paul Dale's artificial leg started failing, he has suffered falls, injuring an elbow, pulling both shoulders and breaking a rib. But Dale's insurance company won't pay to replace the prosthesis...
Mountaineer and double amputee Mark Inglis doesn't believe in sugar coating things...
An Iraqi doctor fits Shahad Abbas Aziz, for prosthetic limbs in Baghdad's Green Zone... IRAQ: A girl, a soldier, a dream...
Serving a tennis ball looks easy for Travis Spangler, the junior has game. It's what he doesn't have that makes him unique...
“I’ll have three different legs at the race — and each leg is more expensive than my bike,” says Rozelle...
Natalie du Toit struck gold at the Paralympic World Cup on Saturday - just days after qualifying for the able-bodied Olympics in Beijing...
Alan Rudkin who lost a leg in a road accident vowed today to walk again within months...
Curtis Dolezal has lived most of his life with only part of his right arm, but that hasn't slowed his pursuit of excellence in sports and life...
Malek Mohammed hops into the pool oblivious to his disability... | “I wanted to walk,” Wideman says, glancing hisleg, part of which is a prosthesis. “But I didn’t expect for it to work out like this.”...
...Laura Hebb went to the doctor with a sore knee on, the 10-year-old girl and her family had no idea how serious the problem really was...
Amputated limbs of two individuals who suffered injuries in separate incidents have been successfully re-implanted by doctors at the Shija Hospitals and Research Institute...
...teenager Judith Hamer is on course to compete in the 2012 Olympics - after choosing to have her leg amputated...
Bio-electro-magnetic-energy-regulation (Bemer), amputee recommended...
Amputee Leah Dorsett, recently named one of eight finalists for the National Federation of High School Association’s annual Spirit of Sport Award...
Aimee Mullins, she can be however tall she wants. "I'm usually 5-foot-8. But today, I'm 6-foot-1,"...
Amputee biker maker builds one for amputee vet...
Mark Ormrod lost both legs and an arm in combat has learned to walk again - in time to take to the parade ground to collect his medal...
Moving toward more lifelike artificial limbs... | 'They had just put a man on the moon and they handed me a foot that was worth 50 dollars!' he comments. 'I just knew there's something better.'...
One-handed pitcher won't let disability get in his way...
Woman loses arm in horror crash...
3-year-old boy was seriously injured Friday evening when a lawn mower backed over his right foot...
Rolling to glory: John Lee caps comeback at Wheelchair Games...
Heather Mills dumps girl with no legs... Heather Mills, receiving flak over a failed financial pledge to help a woman in need of prosthetic limbs... Heather Mills leaves Russian girl with no legs to stand on?
Kira Leger - One of 20 Dow Comeback Kids...
Amputee Andy Chapa has good friends... |
"Estimated number of mine survivor amputees living in developing countries: 300,000" Act Now
May 9th, 2008 Prosthetic limbs amaze pupils; Girl helps War Amps deliver safety message at school...
Amputee has kidney stolen...
Kehinde Babalola, has sued the hospital for N500 million for amputating her arm...
"When they amputated her leg, they said she would never live," Carmen said. "Well she did."...
Vanessa King: Actress, model & graphic designer wants to see higher visibility for amputees...
...a version of Guitar Hero will be unveiled that is designed to aid arm amputee rehabilitation...
Advanced Arm Dynamics Inc. opens Oregon office... | After amputations, Iraq war vet enjoying life, new job in Florida...
Amputee John Siciliano, contestant on 'American Gladiators'...
15 year-old amputee receives sprinting leg courtesy of local inspiration...
Amputee Gary B. Coulter's 30-year career dealing in marijuana has ended...
Amputee and bike-fit guru Andy Pruitt, PhD, wrote the book on bike fitting...
One-armed Bob Mortimer plans to pedal from Gig Harbor, WA. 3,900 miles to New York City... | Cpl. Steven Kiernan may have further amputation...
Operation Homefront helps amputee vet build a gate...
It's not a race with Oscar Pistorius, says Natalie Du Toit...
Adaptive golf programs level the course for people with disabilities...
Heather Mills is set to show off her business skills as a contestant on America's 'Celebrity Apprentice' reality show...
Nicaraguan child gets second leg from charities in USA... |
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May 2nd, 2008 TIME Magazine Ranks Oscar Pistorius One of the 100 Most Influential People of 2008...
Doctors feared he would not survive - but two years later, and with half a foot amputated, Lee Fradsham has returned to work...
Four-year-old Connor Owen, born without a foot and should have died. Twice. He's still going...
Amputee George Karnes takes optimism to golf tournament...
Limbless Association had two runners in this year's London Marathon, both of whom successfully completed the 26.2 mile course...
Canadian bride loses arm, groom also hurt in fatal Egyptian bus crash...
Amputee pensioner, "I feel like a prisoner in my own home"...
| World's fastest female amputee April Holmes inspires high school students... April Holmes will serve as the national spokesperson for Disability Insurance Awareness Month campaign being launched today by the LIFE Foundation...
Insurance hardly covers the price of a prosthetic leg. That's why the school is stepping in, holding a "Drew Wall" fundraiser...
Japan's CYBERDYNE, Inc. is developing a white exoskeleton that it says can augment the body's own strength or do the work of ailing (or missing) limbs....
New Zealand: Waitara rugby league legend Tony Kemp is proud to be supporting a special fundraising match for double amputee Ben Hekenui...
Team Canada has won the Standing Amputee World Hockey Championship four times...
Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM), a five-year $250 million initiative that uses soldiers' own stem cells to grow skin, muscles, tendons and even bone...
Sean Horan has secured €143,000 damages after he had to have five toes amputated when a bus drove over his foot... | Bonded by catastrophic injuries that meant a life lived without legs, Cynthia Banham and Gill Hicks arranged a meeting. This is Cynthia's story...
Race car driver Eric Hardin talks the talk and walks the walk, on a prosthetic leg...
Cameron Clapp, triple-amputee athlete, actor and motivational speaker touring the country inspiring others who have lost limbs to "get out and move"...
Governor General of New Zealand to tour War Amps National Headquarters...
Five year old Cheyenne Batchelder's right leg will have to be amputated within eight weeks...
It was retired Army Specialist Justin Johnson's choice to have his leg amputated. The decision took four years to make...
Teen loses leg in car accident, driver crashed the car after taking cocaine to “sober himself up.”...
David Gong, amputee, multiple cancers and tough as nails...
Amputee Pieter Van der Westhuizen, covers 2,500km in South Africa in his wheel chair motivating others... |
April 30th, 2008 Have you visited the Friends page? These are folks that provide mobility services for the disabled, support our veterans, or work to prevent minefield deaths and injuries. April 28th, 2008 Hanger Orthopedic Group Announces First Quarter EPS of $0.12, a 100% Increase Over the Prior Year...
More limb amputations among blacks in Chicago... ...blacks suffer disproportionately from diabetes and other conditions that lead to peripheral arterial disease...
Teen, Joshua Castle, punctured lung, brain injuries and left leg amputated below the knees makes slow but steady progress...
Oscar Pistorius will challenge his Olympic ban at a Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal tribunal beginning Tuesday... "If the blades give an advantage," insisted Pistorius, "why are the other Paralympic athletes not running the times I am achieving?" | Man gets $18-million award for amputated foot...
Despite prosthesis, high school student Tom Scott is a lacrosse standout...
Jim McLaren’s story has been told time and again, and there's a reason for that...
Seonaid Dunne battling to persuade the Government to allow amputees to keep their medical cards when they return to work...
Update: Ministry of Health backdates Bradford White's coverage, massive bills are paid...
Dana Bowman, double amputee skydiver, “If I can do this, imagine what you can do,”
As a child, writer Sarah Anderson had her arm amputated. Her stiff-upper-lip family never spoke of the trauma - nor did she. Denial came at a cost...
Fiji: Man has leg amputated, saying the problem could have been fixed if doctors acted with urgency...
John Allen, diabetes robbed him of his gall bladder, spleen, 90 percent of his pancreas, half his stomach, half his colon and, his left leg below the knee, wins two two body-building first-place plaques... | Proceeds from 5k run will help amputees walk...
'Grandfather' of Chicago prosthetics still thriving in age of microchips...
Master Sergeant William "Spanky" Gibson is back on the front lines... Born to be a Marine...
Firefighter John Lewis has no trouble finding his equipment: His boots are the only pair with an artificial leg sticking out of the top...
Bush glanced at the soldier's right leg, where a prosthesis has replaced a portion of the lower leg and the foot...
John McFall knew his life had changed forever. But he didn't expect it to be for the better...
"I don't want to be one of those guys sitting around feeling sorry for themselves," Sgt. Brian Schar... |
April 25th, 2008 Soliant Health sponsors double amputee Ironman Triathlete Scott Rigsby...
The Econoline van that was Terry Fox's home on the road for 143 days during his 1980 Marathon of Hope is being restored...
Chicago Urban league announced the creation of a jobs program for amputee, homeless and severely wounded veterans...
Orthopedic/Prosthetics Market to Reach $14.5 billion by 2010...
Beating odds has different meaning for Iraqi disabled athletes...
Gritty sportsman faces his biggest challenge, being an amputee...
Amputee vets start three-day, 65-mile bicycle ride from the South Lawn of the White House to Annapolis, Md... | Jamie Andrews, nothing should really surprise you about his abilities...
 When your life seems rough, imagine living Nastya Papizhuk's...
Out of the carnage of roadside bomb blasts, U.S. Paralympics recruiters are finding new talent for world-class sports in Beijing and beyond...
Firefighter hospitalized saving double amputee | Man threatens amputee over residents association dispute...
Update: Sarah Panzau, amputee bringing a hard message to kids...
Update: Cambodia Will Play Host To Miss Landmine 2009...
"The first thing that I thought of was that I wanted to play hockey again," Bowser said. "So, I said I wanted to have it amputated."...
Is amputee panhandler exploiting his lack of prosthetic?
BMW giving amputee vets driving lessons...
How an amputee Iraq war veteran led the New York Giants to a Super Bowl victory without ever setting foot on the field... |
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April 21st, 2008 Orlando Magic fan, Marsha Hostetler, is back despite amputation, heart attacks...
Senator arrested on DUI, was it his leg or the drink that failed the test? ...videotape from the deputy's cruiser...
Flying radio controlled jets and helicopters for Arianna Perez...
A quick glance at his partially amputated left hand reminds Sgt. Victor Thibeault that the places he has been are real...
Konthoujam Maikel Meetei, though both his legs have been amputated, he dreams of becoming a world class artist...
Kgothatso Montjane and Sydwell Mathonsi will represent South Africa in the World Wheelchair Tennis Cup...
“If we want to solve the root of the problem, we must patiently cooperate to create conditions for people with disabilities to get fully involved in their communities - not do everything for them or just give them charity,” Trinh Cong Thanh...
Community comes to aid of Walter "Bub" and Carol Ezell... | Despite an artificial right leg, Diane Conti has 15 holes in one...
Steve Novick, one handed politician with humor and a little edgy...
William and Harry visit amputee vets in hospital...
Tri-Service Olympics, his prosthetic left leg shining blue...
Advancing tools help mesh man, machine...
Double amputee, Nicole Kullen’s dream of representing Australia at the Paralympics is set to become a reality...
To honor double amputee, Sgt. Schar, bikers flocked to Smoky Mountain Harley Davidson to take part in Freedom Ride 2008... | "It's Just a Matter of Balance" Review - Discusses both literal and figurative 'Balance'...
Miss Landmine: exploitation or bold publicity for the victims? "I may have lost a leg but I'm not Heather Mills. I don't have a rich ex-husband. If I don't go out to work, I don't eat."
Alfred "Denny" Denison spends hours crafting artificial limbs for children, breaking them is a good thing...
"No girl will look at him until he has a good leg."
A woman who lost both her legs in the 7/7 bombings is going to walk 200 miles between Leeds and London (video)... Gill Hicks hopes people will join in "to meet, walk and talk with each other about matters of belief and conscience"...
Disaboom expands automotive site with greater information on driving equipment, driving skills and auto enthusiast groups...
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April 18th, 2008 Update:no charges yet against a man suspected of beating a homeless amputee to death...
Nedbank South African Disabled Golf Open, will include 33 leg amputees, 12 arm amputees...
From athlete to amputee, academic to food culture expert, Lisa Stowe has proved herself to be one of the University of Calgary hottest instructors...
Rachel Smullen lost both her legs and six fingertips after contracting meningococcal disease nine years ago, getting ready to walk down the aisle...
Jaipur Foot travels to Afghanistan...
Senator urges agencies, Congress to hire more disabled employees... | Pentagon-funded research into regrowing limbs lost in war, $250 million project... Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, plans to grow ears, skin for wounded vets... Wake Forest University receives grant to help wounded... After an explosion severs a soldier's hand, surgeons replace it with a hand taken from a deceased donor...
Gadget eases pain for amputees...
When you see the Rosenbergers in person, you understand why this couple operates a Christian ministry aimed at addressing the needs of amputees in developing countries...
Bradford White, lost his left arm, back on the job thanks to the generosity of his employer, co-workers and the customers of Domino's Pizza... | Thief befriends amputee, steals $600...
Update: Comedy benefit for wounded warriors in Ward 57, event details...
When amputee Dotan Meishar goes up for a rebound, a giant shadow falls across the court...
Cambodian mine legacy lives on after Pol Pot...
Snowboarding amputee, Carl Murphy, wins medals... |
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