Businessman and father of the Ball Brothers, the 57-year-old LaVar Ball had his right foot and part of his lower right leg amputated earlier in February 2025. The amputations were done in three stages ...

"It happened so quickly," a grateful Monica Swindall tells PEOPLE Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in the ...

LITTLE EGG HARBOR - At every high school commencement, there is some version of a speech about the twists and turns in the road ahead, facing life’s challenges, and the importance of being a good ...

An 18-year-old Marysville teen, who lost his leg a year and a half ago, was surprised with a running prosthesis during a free mobility & running clinic on Saturday. The prosthetic was given to Xavian ...

WADSWORTH, Ohio -- If you watch the freshman football team from Wadsworth High School, you'll see speed, contact and energy. You may also notice number 16, freshman Zach Patterson. He loves football ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

MOUNT VERNON, New York (WABC) -- After a five-year-old endured a life-threatening illness, doctors gave him new tools to brighten his future. Steffon Carter started first grade at Mt Pleasant ...

A San Antonio boy was riding his bike on the sidewalk last year when he fell and broke his leg. Doctors who performed emergency surgery that night questioned why the femur broke so easily, his mother ...