Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man cutting an avocado in his kitchen (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Hand surgeons are seeing a lot more avocado-related hand ...

Avocado sales have surged over the past few years, with Nielsen reporting an 11 percent growth in sales of the fruit in 2016 over the year before. The reasoning is clear: Avocado is delicious. But ...

For avocado lovers, this is a dangerous time of year. Thousands of people slice their hands and fingers every year while cutting avocados, and research shows that most of these injuries occur from ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The growing popularity of avocados has many people learning that cutting the tasty and healthy fruit the wrong way can lead to a new medical trauma: avocado hand. If you search ...

A Florida woman who sliced through a nerve and severed an artery in her hand while trying to cut an avocado said she still has numbness in her ring finger nearly one year after the accident. Melissa ...

After their unfortunate avocado-related injuries earlier this week, Joy Behar and Andi Dorfman have drawn attention to an odd, yet dangerous phenomenon known as “avocado hand” — but doctors have been ...

Over the last decade, emergency room physicians started noticing it more and more... Patients, primarily in their early thirties, coming in with grisly knife injuries to their non-dominant hands, ...

When it comes to avoiding "avocado hand," Martha Stewart has the answers to making sure the avocado is the only thing getting sliced open. Stewart demonstrated the simple steps to making sure the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The growing popularity of avocados has many people learning that cutting the tasty and healthy fruit the wrong way can lead to a new medical trauma: avocado hand. If you search ...