amputees

Researchers are using Guitar Hero to help train amputees who will use electrical signals from their residual muscles to control next generation bionic arms.

Boing Boing 2008

Sara Yehoshua (b. 1926 in Chalkis), known as Sarika, at the age of fourteen became a nurse in her native Chalkida, the capital city of the island of Euboea, where wounded soldiers and amputees from the Albanian front were sent.

Greek Resistance During World War II. 2009

The amputees are the most visible reminder of the extensive use of landmines during the last three decades of the Twentieth Century.

Travel to Cambodia: 2005 Trip Journal - Part Five 2008

"as many as 150,000" quake amputees, which is "almost 2% of the nation's 9 million people," the magazine writes.

Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

"as many as 150,000" quake amputees, which is "almost 2% of the nation's 9 million people," the magazine writes.

Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

"as many as 150,000" quake amputees, which is "almost 2% of the nation's 9 million people," the magazine writes.

Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

She alleges that victims of war such as amputees are used like plastic dolls for display, that aid is coolly used by the local military, via taxes and staff hiring, as a way of funding war, and that refugee camps are handy bases for hiding soldiers.

Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

The next step is to work with a real multifingered dexterous hand and equip it as a prosthesis for trans-radial amputees, meaning those who retain a portion of their arm below the elbow.

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In Afghanistan, Canadian soldiers search a barn and amputees try out prosthetic legs.

Photos of the Day 2011

Yéle Haiti recently paid airfare for Montanti's organization to bring three young amputees from Haiti to Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia.

Wyclef Jean aims to keep Haiti earthquake relief at forefront 2010