Researchers have found in a study of 2,542 adults that diabetes is associated with a 62% higher 5-year mortality rate ...

A two-minute walk test is less robust in measuring the stead state metabolic expenditure in lower leg amputee patients compared to total oxygen uptake analysis and minute interval analysis over 6 ...

Wayne Wolff can no longer climb stairs, water ski, play golf or hunt after his allegedly botched knee surgery. And he had to ...

White's revision surgery, performed by Ayalon, went smoothly. White spent several months afterward using a wheelchair and ...

However, if the injury occurred lower on the tibia, the ants would decide to just clean the wound rather than cutting off the ...

Objective The goal of the study was to determine whether complications of diabetes well-known to be associated with death such as cardiovascular disease and renal failure fully explain the higher ...

Long-term high blood sugar levels, oxidative stress ... can completely damage the nerves in your lower limbs, possibly leading to limb loss and amputation. In some cases, unmanaged diabetes ...

Medicare introduced the K level system to better evaluate the prosthetic benefits for people who have had amputations of their lower limbs. Federal and state healthcare agencies may use K levels ...

A high school basketball player in New Mexico is being honored for making it back to the court after a cancer diagnosis led ...

In Singapore, there are about four lower limb amputations daily due to non-healing ... diabetic wounds are characterized by persistently high levels of inflammation," he explained.

In Singapore, there are about four lower limb amputations daily due to non-healing ... diabetic wounds are characterised by persistently high levels of inflammation." Andy Tay, Assistant Professor ...

Days later, doctors discovered Wang actually had severed the artery that supplies blood to the left lower extremity. It should not have taken days to make that discovery, the lawsuit contends.