By Shreoshree Chakrabarty: Diabetes can lead to serious foot problems due to nerve damage and poor circulation. According to the American Diabetes Association, 1 in 5 diabetics hospitalised are there ...

Foot problems are common with diabetes. These include calluses. Certain things you do can either help or hinder the healing of foot calluses if you have diabetes. If you have any symptoms of a ...

Diabetic neuropathy refers to nerve damage due to diabetes. When it affects the feet, healthcare professionals call it peripheral neuropathy. It usually affects both feet at the same time, as well as ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding a daily check of foot temperature with an infrared skin thermometer to standard diabetic foot therapy can significantly reduce the recurrence of foot ulcers, doctors ...

Diabetic foot is a problem caused by diabetes, mainly due to nerve damage - neuropathy, poor circulation, and infection, ...

There are various ways of classifying diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Some guidelines refer to a staged system ranging from stage 1 — no symptoms and no risk — to stage 6, where treatment can no longer ...

High-energy sound waves can stimulate healing in patients with diabetes whose chronic foot wounds don't respond to standard ...

Whether a wound -- such as a diabetic foot ulcer -- heals or progresses to a worse outcome, including infection or even amputation, may depend on the microbiome within that wound. Whether a wound -- ...

After studying burn victims and war veterans, entrepreneur Ran Ma hand-made a sock that contained sensors to detect foot ulcers. Now, her company, Siren, has secured $9.5 million, with an $8 million ...

Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplants are a life-saving option for people with Type 1 diabetes. Survival rates after ...