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Why Do Women Get Less Effective Amputee Care?
It’s well documented that race, income, and geography can influence amputees’ health status. But there’s another fault line in patient ...
Amputee Filmmakers Shine in 2024 Disability Film Challenge
It was another record-setting year for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, with 136 entries. And as always, films by amputee ...
Do Running Blades Give Amputee Sprinters an Unfair Advantage?
Ever since Oscar Pistorius began racing nondisabled sprinters, sports scientists have been debating whether running blades give amputee athletes an ...
Amplitude’s Awareness Aces for #LLLDAM
To celebrate Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month, we combed Amplitude’s print and digital archives to find amputees with ...
Disabled Vet Frances Rivera Has Wind in Her Sails
As one of the nation's top amputee kiteboarders, Frances Rivera is way more comfortable gliding over water than snow. But ...
The Smartest Guy in the Room
When Phil Skiff evaluates federal grant applications, he’s typically the only reviewer without a PhD. But as a below-knee amputee, ...
Study Identifies How Objects Affect Brain?s Grip Plan
Plots that relate the neural patterns from each experimental instance show how the plans for gripping either of two objects ...
Stanford Team Improves Precision of Brain-Controlled Prosthesis
Brain-controlled prostheses sample a few hundred neurons to estimate motor commands that involve millions of neurons, so tiny sampling errors ...
Leading Experts Call for Making Cancer Drugs More Affordable
A group of 118 of the nation's leading cancer experts have drafted a prescription for reducing the high cost of ...
Canada’s War Amps’ CHAMP Program Turns 40
Canada's Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program turns 40 this year. The program was founded in 1975 by The War Amputations of ...
