Scientists have uncovered new clues about why diabetic foot infections can become so severe and difficult to treat. By ...
The prognosis for people with an infected diabetic foot ulcer is worse than was previously thought, according to new research. More than half the patients in the research study did not see their ulcer ...
A new risk score for amputation in patients with infected diabetic foot ulcers that could be used easily in daily practice has been developed, with the researchers claiming it may have better ...
It is estimated that 25 million people are affected by diabetes in the US. One in three Americans born in 2000 will develop diabetes sometime during their lifetime. It is caused by elevated sugar.
Patients with an infected diabetic foot ulcer have a far worse prognosis than previously thought, with 15% of patients dying within a year, less than half of the ulcers healing in the same time period ...
New research led by King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Westminster, has shed light on the ...
Participants in the antimicrobial-dressing treatment arm experienced an additional 119 healing events. However, the researchers considered this "low-certainty evidence," due to risk of bias. Use of an ...
Older diabetes patients who receive prolonged courses of antibiotics are at the highest risk of having infected diabetic foot ulcers, a new study shows. Researchers at Qazvin University of Medical ...
Veterans who survive the horrors of war or the other dangers of military service often die years later from a silent but deadly scourge: diabetic foot ulcers, open sores or lesions that typically ...
The prognosis for people with an infected diabetic foot ulcer is worse than was previously thought, according to new research. More than half the patients in the research study did not see their ulcer ...
Viruses may be getting a lot of bad press lately, but it’s important to remember that there are some species that may be helpful to us. Bacteriophages (or just phages) are viruses that prey on ...