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Hot Foot-Cold Foot Determines Risk for Amputation

Posted: Thursday, March 01, 2007

If one foot's hot and the other's not, you might be developing a foot ulcer.

Nearly 3 in 4 People With Diabetes At High Risk For Amputation Have Diseased Toenails.

Posted: Thursday, March 01, 2007

These are the findings of a recent study presented at the Council of Nail Disorders.

New Diabetes Guidelines Target Foot Complications, Amputations

Posted: Thursday, September 28, 2006

New guidelines for health care professionals could lead to significantly fewer foot complications and amputations by changing the way doctors treat the feet of diabetes patients.

`Mr. Diabetes®' Talks the Talk and Walks the Walk

Posted: Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Walking down Commonwealth Avenue, on approximately the 7,500th mile of his perimeter walk around the United States, Andy ``Mr. Diabetes®" Mandell spotted his latest target.

``Hi, may I talk to you for a minute?" Mandell asked the young man walking toward him. ``Do you know anyone with diabetes?"

Georgia to Pay Diabetes Doctors for Performance

Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Georgia will provide bonuses to doctors who care for state employees with diabetes, and improve their outcomes.

Novel System Helps Grade Diabetic Foot Ulcer Severity

Posted: Wednesday, May 24, 2006

A new wound-based measurement system, the diabetic ulcer severity score (DUSS), helps categorize such ulcers and their likely outcome.

Some Diabetes Patients Lose Lower Limbs Because of Skin Changes

Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Researchers have discovered why patients with diabetes develop a condition which leads to amputation of the lower limbs.

It is caused by an alteration in their skin tissue before leg ulcers develop. The best way to prevent an ulcer complication is to lower the patient's blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol. The problem is the condition is often undetected at its early stages. So, effective treatment can sometimes arrive too late.

Catching Foot Ulcers Before They Even Start

Posted: Monday, January 23, 2006

A study led by researchers at the Joslin-Beth Israel Deaconess Foot Center and Microcirculation Laboratory finds that early changes in the oxygenation of the skin could help foretell the development of ulcerations and enable doctors to treat patients at an earlier stage, before the onset of serious complications.

Diabetes Linked to Decreased Mobility

Posted: Thursday, December 08, 2005

Patients with diabetes and lower extremity disease have an increased risk of mobility limitation in adults 40 years of age and older

Diabetic Foot Ulcers, Amputations Are Preventable

Posted: Monday, November 21, 2005

For a condition that is largely preventable, the costs of treating diabetic foot disease is over 10 Billion dollars a year. To prevent amputations, all that is required is a 10-gm monofilament that cost less then fifty cents!