Ceremony at Beijing's historic teaching hospital marks new chapter in transpacific collaboration on diabetic foot disease and limb preservation.
Peking University First Hospital Confers Visiting Professorship on USC’s David G. Armstrong
Malvern at 40, and 30 Years On: One Last Bow for Profs. Boulton and Rayman, and a Long Road Ahead #Malvern40 #ActAgainstAmputation #DFCon #LimbPreservation @ALPSLimb
Forty years of the Malvern Diabetic Foot Meeting. Thirty years of mine. One last bow from Andrew Boulton in the chair. A look back at the long arc — from a Benedictine priory in 1085 to Joslin in 1928 to DFCon in 2000 to ALPS in 2020 — and a look forward to DFCon 26, DFUpdate, traveling fellowships, and the next generation already climbing the hill.
From Scar to Salamander? Adult Mice Regrow Amputated Digits After Sequential FGF2 → BMP2 #regeneration #amputation @NatureComms
Yu and colleagues from Ken Muneoka's group show that sequential FGF2 then BMP2 treatment flips an adult mouse digit amputation from fibrosis to regeneration — rebuilding the distal phalanx with a growth plate, plus a parallel response that regenerates a synovial joint complex with tendon, ligament, and a sesamoid-like bone. The regeneration-competent cells are already in our wound beds. We just have to learn what to say to them.
“No DFU Goes Unstudied”: The Diabetic Foot Consortium #DFC Biomarker Platform Study from Brings Master-Protocol Design to Wound Healing #DFU #DiabeticFoot
Our colleagues at the NIDDK Diabetic Foot Consortium have published the methodologic scaffolding the field has needed: a platform study—master-protocol trial design borrowed from oncology and COVID-19 vaccines—applied for the first time to DFU biomarker validation. Their mantra: No DFU Goes Unstudied.
Hold the Antibiotics Before Bone Biopsy—Or Not? A Provocative New Meta-Analysis from #Lavery, #Wukich, #Peters and Team #DFO #Osteomyelitis #DiabeticFoot
A new systematic review and meta-analysis from Lavery, Wukich, Peters and team asks whether pre-biopsy antibiotics actually reduce bacterial culture yield in suspected diabetic foot osteomyelitis. Spoiler: maybe not.
The Doctor Is In (the Wound Clinic): Dan Powell, MD on Embedding Behavioral Health in Limb Preservation #MalvernDFC2026 #DiabeticFoot @alpslimb
At today's Malvern Diabetic Foot Conference, Georgetown psychiatrist Dan Powell, MD made the case for embedding behavioral health into wound healing and limb preservation programs — with Hopkins data showing a 3-day median reduction in length of stay when psychiatric consultation is proactive rather than reactive.
98.4%: What Fran Game’s National Diabetic Foot Audit Lecture Should Change About How We Talk About the Diabetic Foot and DFUs #DiabeticFoot #Malvern2026 #ToeFlowGo #NDFA #LimbPreservation @alpslimb
Field notes from Malvern, year 40. With thanks to @FranGame for the slide that should hang in every multidisciplinary clinic in the world. I came in this morning expecting another graceful walk through the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit dashboard. What I got instead was the most useful reframe I have heard in a long... Continue Reading →
Who’s in Charge of the OR? Granados et al. Reimagine the Surgical Team in the Age of #AI and #Robotics
A new Frontiers in Science Lead Article from Granados, Khanna, Fischer, and colleagues at King's College London — with Prokar Dasgupta as senior author — takes a swing at one of the harder questions in modern surgery. When the operating room becomes a sensorized, situationally aware ecosystem with embodied AI agents, robotic scrub assistants, and... Continue Reading →
Mönckeberg: How a Quiet 1903 Autopsy Became the Loudest Plain Film in Limb Preservation #DiabeticFoot #PAD #CLTI #LimbPreservation #ActAgainstAmputation #PMAC #Calcification
Johann Georg Mönckeberg was a Hamburg patrician, born in 1877. His father — same name — was a senator of the free city, with the Mönckebergstrasse running from the Rathaus to the Hauptbahnhof named after him. The son grew up in a household where the name was already on the streets. He studied medicine at... Continue Reading →
If It Doesn’t Look Like a Tree: #Fractals, #Microcirculation, and Why Small Artery Disease Is So Easy to See
A long-time friend's offhand observation in Bremen — that small artery disease is easy to see on an angiogram because it doesn't look like nature — leads to Mandelbrot, Murray's law, and a quantifiable complexity index for the diabetic foot.
