Dec. 2—Joanne Pressbury of Bel Air is a three-year amputee. After Pressbury, 62, lost her leg to diabetes, her physical therapist referred her to Real Life Prosthetics for a replacement, she said.

Prosthetics have come a long way over the past half century or so. Gone are the days where "dumb" artificial limbs are the only option, and today new breakthroughs have resulted in incredibly lifelike ...

Advances in 3-D printing are making prosthetic limbs more affordable and easier to acquire. A global community called e-Nabling the Future is making low-cost prosthetic hands across the world. A ...

Prosthetic arm. Image by StarWarsRey. CC BY-SA 4.0 Prosthetic arm. Image by StarWarsRey. CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers have developed a new breath-driven concept set to transform access to hand prosthetics ...

It’s a common plot point in science fiction stories – someone loses an arm and gets a prosthetic limb that can move and feel just like the original. And, that’s exactly what researchers at the ...

The new air-powered hand provides a lightweight, low-maintenance and easy-to-use body-powered prosthetic option particularly well suited for children and those in low and middle-income countries. The ...