Diabetes-related amputations have reversed a decade-long trend and are now on the rise, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). ADA’s Amputation Prevention Alliance reports that 154,000 ...

Podiatrists, wound centers, primary care physicians, and patients with numbness or non-healing wounds urged to seek ...

Lower extremity amputation risk was lower among users of SGLT-2 inhibitors vs DPP-4 inhibitors but higher among users of SGLT-2 inhibitors vs sulfonylureas. Among patients with type 2 diabetes, sodium ...

Living with diabetes requires vigilance on many fronts, but perhaps none as crucial as protecting your limbs from amputation. While many focus on monitoring glucose levels, understanding the ...

In my years as a patient advocate, I’ve had countless conversations with healthcare executives about the economics of limb preservation versus amputation. During one particularly candid exchange at a ...

LAS VEGAS, NV—The diversion of blood flow through arterialization of the deep veins in the foot holds up well at 2 years as a therapy for “no-option” patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia ...

Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. "Unfortunately, by the time a patient with diabetes and/or PAD ...

Until the discovery of antibiotic medicine last century, doctors frequently performed amputations to save the life of a patient with an infected wound. But humans aren’t the only animal to perform ...

Courtney, 30, has had to have one of the rarest amputations in the world ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that the brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it ...