Diabetes-related amputations represent one of the most severe complications of the disease, affecting thousands of patients annually. Medical research consistently demonstrates that understanding ...

Maria Valdez didn’t have a lot of options. A wound on her foot that had become infected wasn’t healing because of her diabetes. She started using a wheelchair to get around. A year and a half ago, it ...

Amputation rates have long been higher in rural America. But in cities, the highest rates are associated with poverty and being Black, a new study shows. Amputation rates have long been higher in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data show that in patients with peripheral artery disease, the use of statins, particularly high-intensity ...

CMS can take steps to raise awareness, including a specific quality measure, to ensure that testing occurs prior to nontraumatic amputation. EVERY DAY, APPROXIMATELY 500 Americans lose a limb and join ...

The pandemic has hit high school seniors, robbing them of traditions such as walking across the stage to receive a diploma. That was devastating enough to one Sioux Falls senior until walking across a ...

CHICAGO – The overall amputation rate in northern Illinois is declining due to improved care for diabetes and peripheral vascular disease, new research shows. But not everyone is reaping the benefits.

DALLAS, Aug. 25, 2021 — Poverty and Black race were associated with higher rates of lower leg amputation among people with peripheral artery disease who live in metropolitan areas, according to new ...

Diabetes accounts for about two-thirds of lower limb amputations in Canada, according to a report released this week by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The CIHI drew on 2020-2023 ...

Hurst L.D. Bell girls basketball coach Andy Bloodworth was diagnosed in 1999 with a cartilage-based cancer called mesenchymal chondrasarcoma and had his left leg amputated below the knee that same ...

People in African American communities in Chicago have a five times higher rate of lower limb amputations than people in the predominantly white suburbs and exurbs. This starkly contrasts to a ...