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Amputee Pilots Discover Peace, Freedom in the Skies

Amputee Pilots Discover Peace, Freedom in the Skies

Able Flight offers free flight training for amputees and other people with disabilities. Becoming a pilot builds participants' confidence and ...
Paid Market Research Study Seeks Participants

Paid Market Research Study Seeks Participants

A major national beverage company seeks input to improve its product for customers with mobility and/or dexterity challenges. This is ...
Can Artificial Intelligence Prevent Amputations?

Can Artificial Intelligence Prevent Amputations?

A wave of emerging research indicates that artificial intelligence may help doctors recognize PAD-related limb-loss risk factors with greater speed, ...
This Amputee Is Surviving, and Thriving, After Sepsis

This Amputee Is Surviving, and Thriving, After Sepsis

Like so many victims of sepsis, Torie Mugo didn’t recognize the symptoms and nearly waited too long to get medical ...
BionicM Speeds the Race Toward Powered Prosthetic Legs

BionicM Speeds the Race Toward Powered Prosthetic Legs

Tokyo-based BionicM isn't well recognized within the United States, but its new powered prosthetic leg for amputees might be a ...
Amputee Characters Remain Glaringly Absent from Top Movies

Amputee Characters Remain Glaringly Absent from Top Movies

Despite many recent triumphs, limb difference and other forms of disability remain badly underrepresented in popular entertainment. That’s the finding ...
Amputee Veteran Finds New Career in 3D Printing

Amputee Veteran Finds New Career in 3D Printing

New Training Program Prepares Veterans, Others to Enter Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Grabianowski at the DOE Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. He is ...

President Obama Signs Veterans Access to Care Act into Law

President Obama traveled to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on August 7, where he signed House Resolution (H.R.) 3230, titled the Veterans ...
Amputee Coalition Announces 2014-2015 Skoski Scholarship Recipient

Amputee Coalition Announces 2014-2015 Skoski Scholarship Recipient

The Amputee Coalition announced that Ashby (AJ) Henningsen, 20, of Baltimore, Maryland, is the recipient of the $1,000 Christina Skoski, ...
Implantable Sensors Improve Control for Prosthetic Limbs

Implantable Sensors Improve Control for Prosthetic Limbs

Illustration of the IMES System courtesy of The Alfred Mann Foundation. When a muscles contracts, it generates electricity. This electrical ...
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