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NEWS ABOUT: amputation

amputation stories: 8 news summaries

Fingertip Amputations Force Maclaren Stroller Recall

Company offers hinge covers on 1M models

Nov 9, 09 7:30 PM CST
(Newser) - A million models of the popular Maclaren brand of baby strollers were recalled today after the Consumer Product Safety Commission received reports that children’s fingertips were amputated by a hinge as strollers unfolded. Maclaren is offering free covers for the hinges on nine models sold at Target, Babies R... More »

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product recall • Target • amputation • strollers • fingers • Maclaren • Babies R Us

Guard Tosses Bribe-less Boy Off Indian Train

Teen who lacked cash loses a leg in fall, officer charged

Sep 13, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - A guard tossed a teenage boy off a train in India apparently because the boy lacked the cash to bribe him, CNN reports. The 13-year-old, who reportedly couldn’t pay the bribe necessary to sell his wares on the train, had to have his leg amputated after the fall. The... More »

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India • bribe • train • amputation • teenager

She'd Still Rather Have the Arm, But the $6.7M Will Help

$6.7m award will make life easier, but is no substitute for arm lost in botched injection

Mar 5, 09 10:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Millions of dollars and a landmark Supreme Court victory is great—"The fact that the justice system worked, it's pretty impressive"—but it's still no substitute for a right arm, musician Diana Levine tells the AP. Levine, whose arm was amputated in 2000 after she developed gangrene from... More »

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lawsuit • Wyeth • pharmaceutical industry • amputation • Diana Levine

UPDATED

Amputated Brazilian
Model Dies

Miss World finalist lost hands and feet after septicemia infection

Jan 24, 09 2:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A top Brazilian model who underwent the amputation of her hands and feet in an attempt to save her from a life-threatening infection died early this morning, CNN reports. Marianna Bridi di Costa was hospitalized in early January for septicemia triggered by a urinary tract infection. Doctors originally believed Bridi... More »

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Brazil • infection • illness • model • beauty queen • amputation

Surgeon Amputates
Using Texted Instructions

Phone helps save Congolese teen

Dec 3, 08 5:11 PM CST
(Newser) - A volunteer surgeon in a Congolese war zone followed texted instructions to perform an amputation that saved a 16-year-old boy's life. The teen's badly injured and infected arm required that his collar bone and shoulder blade be immediately removed, but Dr. David Nott had never conducted such a procedure. He... More »

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medicine • cell phones • surgery • Democratic Republic of Congo • text message • Doctors Without Borders • Rwanda • amputation • rebel fighters

Jaguars Player Paralyzed,
Loses Left Leg

Lineman suffered infections from 14 wounds in shooting

Sep 29, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jacksonville Jaguar Richard Collier has lost a leg and is paralyzed below the waist from a shooting earlier this month, doctors said today. The third-year player suffered serious infections from 14 bullet wounds, but is close to recovery and going home. He is “very fortunate to have survived his... More »

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NFL • crime • Jacksonville Jaguars • football • paralyze • amputation • shooting

Anti-Smoking Poster Boy Still Lights Up

'I'm afraid to quit' despite amputation, heart attacks, stroke

Jan 12, 08 7:26 PM CST
(Newser) - New Yorkers have grown to know Skip Legault's face well from anti-smoking ads in the subway and on TV over the past few weeks. A smoker since he was eight, Legault has lost a leg to blood clots, suffered two heart attacks in his twenties, and had a debilitating stroke.... More »

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health • heart disease • smoking • cigarettes • tobacco • smoking cessation • amputation

'Blade Runner' Found to Have Advantage

Amputee expected to be banned from Olympics after expert ruling

Jan 10, 08 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The double amputee who has petitioned to be included in this year's Olympic track and field events is likely to be denied his request today, the Guardian reports. A biomechanics expert concluded that the J-shaped carbon-fiber prosthetics South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius uses gives him an unfair advantage in stride... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • Oscar Pistorius • IAAF • Paralympics • prosthetics • Gert Peter Br�ggemann • amputation • stamina

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