AmputeeA better kind of news desk
Reporting, real-world guides, and a little useful mischief for amputees, limb-different people, and everyone in their corner.
No inspiration-porn. We skip the sappy "overcame all odds" angle and just report the actual story.
A Mount Prospect community rallied to raise more than $200,000 for a teen following an amputation. That's genuinely good. It also tells you exactly what insurance didn't cover — and who never gets a fundraiser that goes viral.
The Eastern Michigan University Foundation has increased the Dale Berry Orthotics and Prosthetics Endowed Scholarship by 250 percent. The number matters less than what it points toward: a workforce pipeline that shapes whether prosthetic care is available at all.
A Times of India feature highlights IIT Madras professors whose research spans clean water to prosthetics. The prosthetics thread in that recognition sits inside a long tradition of Indian academic work on low-cost, contextually appropriate devices — and a design problem that Western R&D largely didn't set out to solve.
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