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 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 new Diabetes Care registry study shows that Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy is far more than a local foot disorder. Following diagnosis, nearly nine in ten patients required emergency hospitalization, almost one-third underwent amputation, and only 44% were alive and amputation-free at five years.
