Amputation Reduction News Today

The American Diabetes Association recently launched the Amputation Prevention Alliance — a three-year effort to decrease the number of diabetes-related amputations in the country — along with five partner organizations. The organizations will work together to advocate for policy changes, increase clinician education about caring for diabetic complications, and improve patients' awareness of warning signs to watch out for.

It’s time to shine some light on PAD and start taking coordinated, proactive action to prevent this condition from advancing in people with diabetes

We know that diabetes is a disease that can impact the patient's entire body, spreading complications throughout many physiological systems and debilitating the mental health of those who struggle against it. While diabetes management can take many approaches, it's integral that we recognize the huge impact of diabetic amputations and take steps to prevent them. Diabetic amputations are particularly brutal in the way they impact patients, and they're entirely preventable. Through ...

© Getty Images As we recognize National Minority Health Month, a time designated to examine the systemic inequities in our nation’s health care system, we must take a close look at the imbalances that have been exposed even further because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Once hidden to the unaffected, it’s now clear to all that communities of color — including the Black community — have suffered from harmful barriers to comprehensive care, underinvestment, and a severe trust deficit due to d...

December 24, 2020 From the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where rates of diabetes and major amputations are among the highest in the nation, to laboratories where researchers ply cutting-edge technologies aimed at minimizing and repairing tissue loss, an unexpected tone has entered the conversation around limb disease: hope. “They call me a hope dealer,” said Foluso A. Fakorede, MD (Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi, Cleveland). Born in Nigeria and educated in New Jersey, he ...