Amputee Uses Crutch to Fight Off Gunmen
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AURORA, Colo. - An amputee who discovered a burglar inside his home was shot while fighting him off with a crutch.  Roger Baxter survived the Tuesday incident after a cell phone apparently slowed a bullet to his chest. "I just got it programmed," Baxter said of the phone.
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A US man is charged with using his prosthetic leg to smuggle three endangered iguanas from Fiji.
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SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 29 -- A $50 million high-tech rehabilitation center opened its doors Monday, designed to serve the growing number of U.S. troops who return from war as amputees or with severe burns.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - U.S. researchers on  Monday unveiled a computerized prosthetic ankle and foot that  could change the lives of a growing number of amputees  returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost his legs when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together. He's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs and Bluetooth -- the technology that usually brings to mind hands-free cell phones.
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Spc. Robert Loria of Middletown, N.Y., lost his arm in Iraq, but instead of a farewell paycheck from the Army he got a bill for nearly &#36;1,800. On Friday a platoon of New York lawmakers came to his rescue. Loria found himself stuck in Fort Hood in Texas this week when Army officials said he owed money for travel expenses and for lost equipment.
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An Iraqi boy who lost a leg to a car bomb is flying to the U.S. after a charity offered to fit him with a prosthetic leg. His mother said the Global Medical Relief Fund is giving him hope and showing her a different face of America.
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Bonus book excerpt: The caregivers who work with combat amputees face their own emotional challenges--and rise to the occasion
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- For a few days, Garrett Lucash thought he might have to skate while hooked up to an intravenous tube.
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With fake fins and plastic paws, doctors can rebuild injured animals  -  and also use what they learn to help humans
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South African Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who runs with carbon fiber blades attached to his legs, may have to wait until Saturday before he learns if he can compete against able-bodied runners at the Beijing Olympics.
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Armed with miniaturized medical devices, surgeons bring advanced care to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan just moments after they're hurt. By Randy Dotinga.
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A teenager has both legs amputated after falling from a train while playing a dangerous game.
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Dr. P. K. Sethi invented the affordable prosthesis called the Jaipur foot, which has helped millions of amputees in developing countries to lead normal lives.
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His gut was twisted into a knot, his head pounding, his leg searing in pain from a gunshot wound. Ibrahim Mohamed Doud, a village elder in an African tribe, remembers the day an
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When Karen Papiyants lost his leg in a road accident last year, his medical nightmare was only beginning.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- Khaled Al-Shawish, one of the founders of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and one of Israel&#39;s most-wanted men, has been confined to a wheelchair since he was hit by nine bullets during a gunbattle with Israeli troops on the outskirts of