Look, no one wants to lose a finger, but it happens more often than you'd think. And when it does, the stakes are naturally high, since fingers and thumbs are critical for nearly every task we do.

(MIAMI) — New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul was discharged from a South Florida hospital where he had his right index finger amputated following a fireworks accident, according to a ...

Read at the Surgical Section of the Suffolk District Medical Society (Library Meeting), Jan. 24, 1906.

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Dec 7 (Reuters) - Wales international Shane Lewis-Hughes has undergone a finger amputation after dealing with an injury in his right hand for years and aims to return to action within weeks, his club ...

A camping trip north of Phoenix had been the kind of nature exploration weekend that 9-year-old Lennon Bahme would delight in, until a rattlesnake bite left one of his fingers requiring amputation.