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.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Friday noted the potential increased risk of lower limb amputation (mostly affecting the toes) in patients taking the SGLT2 inhibitors canagliflozin, ...

Toe transfer surgery—using one or more of the patients' toes to replace the amputated digits—is a potential alternative to replantation. While toe transfer surgery is not a new procedure, few studies ...