“I was really afraid for my future,” Loren Schauers says in PEOPLE’s exclusive clip of TLC's new series ‘One Day in My Body’ Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She joined ...

DALLAS, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. surgeons say a review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down casts favorable light on the procedure. The rarely ...

MECHANICVILLE — Tammy Reed, who underwent one of the most radically invasive surgeries in 2010, a hemicorporectomy, or hemi for short, has had the last of her wounds closed up and is taking online ...

MECHANICVILLE -- Not long after she turned 40, Tammy Reed, a paraplegic, faced an existential choice. Chronic sores and infection would likely kill her within 18 months, or she could ask surgeons to ...

The rarely performed surgery is called a hemicorporectomy or translumbar amputation, and involves removing the entire body below the waist, including legs, pelvic bone and urinary system. "It is used ...