On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
Two life-affirming days in Baltimore—from the Johns Hopkins Dome to a KITES keynote and an Alexandria-led ALPS session—made the meaning of teamwork, mentorship, and limb preservation vividly clear.
A day at Johns Hopkins with Alexandria and Natalie, a climb into the historic tower, and a reflection on Billings, Osler, limb preservation and the work of healing on the eve of September 11.
Stacey Schepens Niemiec, Tze-Woei Tan, and USC colleagues adapt Lifestyle Redesign® occupational therapy to help fit diabetic foot care into everyday life. The intervention is ready for testing; clinical effectiveness remains to be established.
An unexpected reunion with Dr. William Tettelbach and a generous welcome from the MLK Community Healthcare team made a September 3 visit to South Los Angeles a powerful reminder of why this work matters.
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.
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.
