Wounded warriors will gear up Sunday and go into a different battleground -- the New York City Marathon.
In the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake in January 2010, a group of dedicated amputees who share a love of soccer emerged as a symbol of survival and rebuilding.
The Defense Department confirmed Tuesday that the number of serious battlefield injuries, including multiple amputations and genital wounds, continues to rise.
Gina Keatley's nonprofit has provided fresh food and nutrition programs to nearly 100,000 people in New York City.
When Gina Keatley first moved to New York to attend culinary school, she noticed that many of her neighbors were missing limbs.
It may be disembodied now, but this cutting-edge robotic arm will soon spring into action as U.S. researchers begin a landmark experiment which, if successful, will see it controlled by mind power.
The socialite goes home a week earlier than expected and is as feisty as ever, says husband
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg was amputated Friday because of a large, deep lesion that proved resistant to antibiotics, her surgeon said.
The Christmas Eve attacks in the volatile Nigerian city of Jos have claimed at least 31 lives, a bloody aftermath in a region long torn by Christian and Muslim hostility.
This season-opening Vikings-Saints game should be one of the great games of the NFL season, a playoff preview ... you know, unless it isn't.
Dana Cummings survived two tours of combat duty as a Marine in the first Gulf War without injury. But 10 years later, he lost a leg in a car crash.
Amputee Dana Cummings found rehabilitation through surfing and now teaches people with disabilities how to surf for free.
If cats have nine lives, they may have just acquired a 10th -- thanks to a groundbreaking surgery that saved the life of a feline double amputee.
Migrants mutilated as they fall from Mexico's "train of death." CNN's Karl Penhaul reports.
In the first four months of this year, more than 20,000 illegal migrants boarded the "train of death" at the railhead in Arriaga, southern Mexico, according to diplomats in the region. They all had one aim: "El Norte", the United States.
An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has prohibited a human rights group from using social networking Web sites to discuss amputations as punishment, court records show.
Record-breaking paralympian Aimee Mullins argues that adversity can open the door for human potential.
People come up to Aimee Mullins all the time and say, "you know, I have to tell you, you just don't look disabled."
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