On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
A Georgetown-centered case series asks whether partial calcanectomy after midfoot amputation can preserve both the limb and meaningful walking. The answer is encouraging, but anatomy and function are not the same outcome.
A provocative 2026 cohort moves PMMA away from the diabetic foot wound and into remote calf tunnels. The idea is genuinely interesting—but extensive decompression, major reporting problems, and an unproven mechanism make this a signal to investigate, not a treatment to adopt.
At the 2026 VASSA Congress in Gqeberha, four international keynotes, decades of friendship, and a locally led consensus process converged around one life-affirming goal: making preventable amputation less inevitable across South Africa.
In diabetic foot remission, the interval between podiatry visits may be part of the treatment. Monthly care had the lowest recurrence.
A major Western Pacific review led by Byron Perrin and Peter Lazzarini maps the world’s largest regional diabetes-related foot disease burden—and eight practical ways countries can strengthen care.
A multinational team reports strong 14-day reproducibility for the simple ACT neuropathy screen—an important reliability milestone, but not yet a diagnostic-accuracy study.
A Stanford team has taught an algorithm to translate Doppler sounds into clinically meaningful ankle-brachial index ranges—potentially bringing vascular assessment closer to the point of care.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis supports functional moisturizers—particularly urea-containing formulations—for diabetic foot xerosis on intact skin.
Before asking an advanced wound therapy to perform, make sure the Wound OS has been rebooted—and verify that the reset worked.
For generations, bacteremia—especially Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia—has almost reflexively meant prolonged IV therapy. But the evidence base continues to chip away at the idea that the route of administration is itself the treatment. A terrific new multicenter study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, including our world-class infectious-disease colleagues at LA General Medical Center and the Los... Continue Reading →
