Ozarks group collects artificial limbs for earthquake victims (KY3 Springfield)
The drive will go through March to give people who think they have a prosthetic limb in the attic or in storage plenty of time to find it.
S. Florida gets down to business rebuilding Haiti (Sun-Sentinel)
Businesses in South Florida step in to help Haiti rebuild PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Wearing dark glasses and a baseball hat, Adam Finnieston hovered outside a field hospital in the Haitian capital with a prosthetic leg tucked beneath his arm. As groups of doctors rushed by, he handed out business cards and chatted with visitors about how the technology developed by his Miami company could help Haiti's ...
Company collects prosthetics for Haiti amputees (WTOP Radio Washington, DC)
Ability is collecting unused prosthetics at its Frederick and Hagerstown locations.
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For South Florida companies, business of rebuilding Haiti begins (Miami Herald)
Wearing dark glasses and a baseball hat, Adam Finnieston hovered outside a field hospital in the Haitian capital with a prosthetic leg tucked beneath his arm. As groups of doctors rushed by, he handed out business cards and chatted with visitors about how the technology developed by his Miami company could help Haiti's amputees.
Prosthetics firm assists new and numerous amputees in devastated Haiti (The Register Citizen)
TORRINGTON — In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of Haitians and destroyed much of the island nation, yet another devastating consequence has been the number of new amputees. Exact numbers are difficult to obtain, but current figures indicate up to 2,000 people have lost a limb. BioMetrics Prosthetics & Orthotics has answered the call from international ...
VIDEO: Pony needs an artificial limb (Macomb Daily)
Angel should hate humans. Instead, the little pony with three legs greets everyone who visits her stall with a soft nudge of her nose.
A Bend company is trying to help injured victims of the Haiti disaster by collecting donations of artificial limbs and braces.January's magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and left a million more homeless, according to The Associated Press.
Some choose to lengthen legs instead of amputate (News 8 Austin)
Imagine the doctors saying amputation is your only option. That's the reality for some kids born with leg deformities. One doctor is working to give these children more choices, including a treatment that allows them to keep their legs.
Student Nurses Collect Prostheses for Haiti (KSMU Ozarks Public Radio)
Thousands of men, women and children in Haiti not only lost their homes and livelihoods in January's earthquake: they also lost limbs when their arms or legs got crushed in the debris. KSMU's Chasity Mayes has more on what the Missouri State University-West Plains Student Nurses Association is doing to help these individuals, who are ...
