The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.

A doctor who has been sanctioned by the state medical board was arrested after grenades were found near his home, but authorities say the arrest is not tied to a car bombing that critically wounded the board’s chairman.

Hand, foot and mouth disease has killed three children and sickened about 110 others in eastern China, state media reported.

A 6-year-old girl is recovering after surgeons reattached her left hand, severed when it was caught in a loop of jump rope that had snagged on the axle of her mother’s car.

One day this past January, Mary Kim Titla’s parents left their home on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in southeastern Arizona and drove across the desert to Phoenix with a single purpose in mind _ getting an up-close glimpse of a long shot named...

When a group of Iraqi envoys headed to Iran recently, they were fully prepared for some tense moments. But they also hoped to come away with something to show for it: pledges of cooperation on weakening Shiite militias in Iraq.Instead, they got a...

A man who believed he bore the “mark of the beast” used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies arrived Saturday...

A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break so much that he glued his hand to his bed. Sandra Palacios spent nearly two hours Monday morning trying to free her son Diego’s hand with water, oil and nail polish remover...

Idaho State University has received an $842,000 grant from the Department of Defense to develop a prosthetic hand that, rather than simply being attached, will be implanted and provide a sense of touch and temperature sensation by converting impulses...