News tagged with lower limb amputation


Loss of protective heart failure protein linked to critical limb ischemia

Restoring diminished levels of a protein shown to prevent and reverse heart failure damage could also have therapeutic applications for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), suggests a new preclinical study published ...

Medical research created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eat slowly and reduce diabetes risk

Your parents must have told you a thousand times - don't eat so fast, slow down! Now it appears that scientific research is backing them up. At the recent joint International Congress of Endocrinology and European Congress ...

Diabetes created Jun 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medicare's bill for artificial feet is questioned

(AP) -- It doesn't compute: Medicare's bill for artificial feet has jumped by more than half, although foot and leg amputations due to diabetes continue to decline dramatically.

Health created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0