A great, thought provoking article from The Star, by Robert Cripp. A wife wants her husband kept alive at all costs Published on Monday October 22, 2012 Video: Desmond and Maria: A fight for life Maria Watson has been fighting to keep her husband Desmond alive at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital for the past three years. The cluster of chairs positioned near…
Read More →Robert Frykberg, DPM, MPH PRESENT Editor, Diabetic Limb Salvage The Diabetic Charcot Foot To Operate or not to Operate? I've just returned from my favorite meeting of the year, that of the Diabetic Foot Study Group of the EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes). One of the common themes of this meeting (again) was the Charcot foot. We've discussed this important complication of diabetes several times in the last few years, but I'd like to…
Read More →Osteomyelitis: Part 3 Treatment: from a Clinician's Point of View For the last several months, we have been discussing one of the more difficult complications of the diabetic foot, that of chronic osteomyelitis (OM). Once we have diagnosed the bone infection from a clinical and imaging perspective, we need to develop a treatment plan based not only on clinical experience, but also on the best available evidence. Unfortunately, there is no clear cut path of evidence to follow. Two camps…
Read More →Love Handles Increase Risk of Death by 50% with Normal BMI Where people store fat may ultimately determine their risk for developing diabetes and heart disease…. A number of people who feel that they are healthy at their current weight typically know that their belly or gut is where they may store the bulk of their fat. Visceral fat surrounds body organs and is much more dangerous than subcutaneous fat, which may hang off our belt buckles or…
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