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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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.

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On the Whole Etymology of the Hole in Skin: Wound, Ulcer & a Dinner in Bremen with Sicco Bus #DiabeticFoot #Etymology #LimbPreservation

Over dinner at EWMA-DEWU in Bremen with longtime collaborator and renowned biomechanist Prof. Sicco Bus, talk drifted from classification to language — and to why English insists on two words for the same hole in the body. A slow look at what wound vs. ulcer is silently encoding every time we write it down.

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