A new program has boosted patients' health while avoiding painful, costly surgeries. In its four years, only one high-risk ...

Someone loses a limb to diabetic wound complications every four hours in Ontario.

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Neuroscientists have long held that the brain reorganizes itself when a body part is amputated. A new ...

Even more concerning, those cases tended to be more severe, often involving loss of an arm or the upper leg above the knee.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cortical region of the brain does not reorganize after amputation of a limb. Machine learning is essential ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk for lower limb amputations for people with diabetes increases with age and for those who smoke or ...

Real-world data found patients on GLP-1s had lower odds of osteomyelitis, ulcers, and ampu ...

Nursing leaders at Intermountain Health are constantly seeking opportunities to improve patient safety and clinical excellence. They realized that if they had faster and more reliable ways to identify ...

Lower extremity amputation remains one of the most serious complications of diabetes, reflecting the combined effects of peripheral neuropathy, vascular disease and recurrent foot ulceration.

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of ...