RUSSELL COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — A Castlewood, Virginia man connected to alleged abuse that left a child with a partially amputated leg was found guilty on child abuse charges after a five-day jury trial. According to a release from the Commonwealth Attorney of Russell County Zack Stoots, Michael Shik Park, 44, was found guilty of […]
A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern Italy said. Surgeons at Turin City Hospital (CTO) transferred part of the man's sciatic nerve, which controlled the movement of his amputated foot, to his brachial plexus, the network of nerves that connect the spinal cord to the shoulder, arm and hand. "It's the first time that someone transfers a component of the sciatic nerve to the brachial plexus", Paolo Titolo, one of the surgeons who performed the operation, said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.
Gabriel Gallardo, a Venezuelan migrant who lost a leg after an SUV crashed into a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas, killing 8, asked Pres. Biden for help in a video.