When did practicing medicine - in its varied, complex forms (from sharing medicinal plants to the earliest surgeries) - become something that we actually started doing? While it’s a hard question to answer, it’s possible that our...

It's no secret that cold can help treat a source of pain, like a sprained ankle or even a burn. But new technology might be able to take that principle and apply it /directly/ onto your nerves!

It’s a cold morning in 15th century France and you’re off to the barber for a shave and haircut. You hear the familiar sound of singing inside and eye a bowl of blood in the window. You grab a cup of ale and examine the array of teeth...

The quest for anesthetics that could induce unconsciousness and enable more meticulous surgeries began around the early 3rd century CE. Before anesthesia was widely used, patients had to consciously endure every moment of surgery. So,...

Some lizards will lose a tail to avoid becoming a meal, but there's more than one reason for animals to self-amputate.

Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next-gen robotic arm.

The vast majority of people who've lost a limb can still feel it - not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail. They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watch band or the throb of an...

Traitors star Ruth Codd says second leg amputation has been 'a lot to unpack'Credit: Ruth Codd

Jessi gives an update on the new chinchilla rescue. So much has happened in the last month, including picking a name!

Body integrity identity disorder (or BIID) which is characterized by a desire to be amputated or paralyzed due to a mismatch between one’s ideal body image and the actual physical appearance. As a result victims of BIID believe a part...

Despite losing an arm in the US Civil War, John Wesley Powell was one of the great explorers of the American West, and made history as the man who mapped the Grand Canyon.

3D-printed prosthetic limbs are being tested by Médecins Sans Frontières to help people who have lost limbs in the war in Syria. The new technology is cheaper and faster than conventional methods and could revolutionise treatment of...

When James Edward Hanger lost a leg in the American Civil War, he returned home to Virginia and designed the world's first articulated prosthetic that could bend like a real leg.

Determined to become the first male amputee signed to a modelling agency, personal trainer Jack Eyers has already made history as the first male amputee model to walk at New York Fashion Week. The 26-year-old from Bournemouth, has also...

3D-printed prosthetic limbs are being tested by Médecins Sans Frontières to help people who have lost limbs in the war in Syria. The new technology is cheaper and faster than conventional methods and could revolutionise treatment of...

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have published a study in the Lancet that explains how a paralyzed woman has been able to control a robot arm with her mind. The 52-year-old woman, Jan Scheuermann, in...

Learn more about how amputation of injured limbs saved the lives of soldiers during the American Civil War.