Q: I have a wound on my left foot that has not healed despite treatment for the past six months. It started out as a prick I got after I stepped on a thorn. I am diabetic and did not notice the injury ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that there are 30.3 million people living with diabetes in the United States. Diabetes comes with many serious complications, including chronic ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(11):1293-1305. The key reason to define whether or not infection is present is that noninfected wounds almost never require antibiotic therapy. Thus, there is no ...

Non healing chronic wounds are difficult to treat in patients with diabetes and can result in severe medical problems for these patients and for society. Negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has ...

Diabetes, a condition that affects how our bodies use sugar, can lead to various complications. It can damage the nerves and blood vessels enough to cause wounds in the feet. Left untreated, these ...

Diabetic foot infections are an increasingly common problem, but proper care can save limbs and, ultimately, lives, suggest new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) ...

A 57-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus of 20 years’ duration presented three weeks after amputation of a gangrenous big toe with a large nonhealing, infected foot wound at the surgical site.

The monsoons themselves have unique health issues, particularly for diabetics, even though they offer respite from the intense summer heat. The ideal conditions for infection are increased humidity, a ...

Founded in 2020, Galway-based Xtremedy is raising seed funding to start clinical trials for its novel medical device to treat diabetic foot infections. Lyn Markey first met Camille O’Malley at the ...

Foot infections are a serious complication of diabetes associated with substantial morbidity and occasional mortality. Antibiotic therapy for mild infections in patients who have not recently received ...