SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio has earned a troubling distinction as the diabetic foot amputation capital of the world. This alarming title has one local doctor concerned about the health crisis unfolding ...

Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates ...

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

Rogelio Jacinto had five days until doctors planned to amputate his leg. It was an emotionally wrenching end to five months of unsuccessful visits to specialists to treat a diabetic foot ulcer. The 72 ...

Nearly one-third of patients with diabetic foot ulcers undergo amputation of their toes, foot, or leg as a result. A set of factors, some of them modifiable, increase the risk for this outcome.

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is required to add new warnings to its diabetes drug, Invokana, about the risk of foot and leg amputations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday. Final ...

It appears a foot amputation hasn't changed LaVar Ball. The father of pro basketball players Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball was acting like his usual self in what appears to be his first video ...

Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The findings are published in the journal Diabetes Research and ...