Diabetic Foot Blog

Obama’s and Romney’s views on funding science and technology research. – Slate Magazine : “We need to take a hard, critical look at the way we fund federal research. But politicians aren’t interested.”

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From SALSA Alum Sugam Bhatnagar: ‘Heart Team’ Pairs PCI and Robotic CABG – in Meeting Coverage, SCAI

May 13, 2012

Medical News: ‘Heart Team’ Pairs PCI and Robotic CABG – in Meeting Coverage, SCAI from MedPage Today

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Great Talk by @gzicherm on gamification: Games for the Game of Life

May 13, 2012

Superb talk at TNW by Gabe Zichermann.

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Malvern 2012 Science Bites

May 12, 2012

Some key tidbits from the 2012 Malvern, UK Diabetic Foot Conference: End stage renal disease is 2.5x greater than 10 y ago and amputation risk 3 fold and 9 fold in people w diabetes: Andros, Malvern, 2012 10 FOLD variation in AMPUTATIONS in UK and USA. Would this be tolerated in cancer? Jeffcoate at Malvern UK: 38k new cases of diabetic foot ulcers/yr, comp to breast cancer at 41k but 5 yr mortality is more than 4x worse

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