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Wanna see the future? The road to digital health: Body Computing, mHealth and @Zephyranywhere

March 24, 2013

This great story about Leslie Saxon, head of Body Computing also includes discussions with our SALSAmigo Brian Russell of Zephyr.  Enjoy. Cheers, -DGA

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Bias may explain disparity in leg amputations

March 20, 2013

Bias may explain disparity in leg amputations | Reuters : (Reuters Health) – Although differences in cultural preferences, wealth or access to top hospitals are blamed for many healthcare disparities, a new study concludes those are not the main reasons that blacks with poor leg circulation are almost twice as likely to be amputated as whites with the same condition.  “The main take home point of the article is that a large disparity exists between the treatment that white and non-white patients receive, and this disparity appears to go beyond simple differences in insurance status and other variables that are often cited as the cause,” wrote the study’s lead author Dr. Tyler Durazzo, from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in an email to Reuters Health

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Structured health care for subjects with diabetic foot ulcers results in a major reduction of amputation rates

March 20, 2013

Structured health care for subjects with diabetic foot ulcers results in a major reduction of amputation rates: This manuscript from Weck and coworkers suggests a 75% reduction in amputation rates and a near four-fold reduction in inpatient mortality by instituting a structured diabetic foot program for people with wounds.

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Diabetic foot care ‘failing patients’, warns expert

March 16, 2013

This featuring our SALSAmiga and DFCon Alumna vascular surgeon Stella Vig from Mayday Hospital in London.  By  Stephen Robinson , 14 March 2013 Thousands of patients with diabetes may be suffering amputations each year because NHS foot care services are unaware of high-risk individuals, an expert has said. Diabetic foot checks are taking place in general practice but at-risk patients are often unknown to foot care teams (Photo: Jim Varney/SPL) A quarter of patients undergoing diabetic amputations were previously unknown to local foot care teams, an analysis has found.

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Lifelogging is here? Meet Memoto.

March 14, 2013

Memoto – automatic lifelogging camera : Lifelogging is here? Imagine growing up with a device that grows with you. Like your phone.

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Physical Therapy Prescription: ‘Take Two Video Games and See Me in A Week’

March 13, 2013

Startup Uses Kinect to Bring Physical Therapy Home Another example of how sensors are changing our world and helping with our mobility. This start-up out of Boston promises to help elderly needing standardized physical therapy movements.

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Study: "Switch" Critical to Wound Healing Discovered?

March 8, 2013

How do you spell wound healing? According to this study just published in Nature, it is spelled miR-198.

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Zain Khalpey to Lead @UofA heart transplant program

March 4, 2013

Congrats to our SALSAmigo Zain Khalpey… Good man and a great program.

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Offloading- Cochrane Review: Non-Removable Offloading is Superior

March 3, 2013

Pressure-relieving interventions … [Cochrane Database Syst Rev

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Citing Hurricane Sandy and Tucson Tragedy, #UofA / SALSA’s Armstrong Keynote to Coney Island Hospital Serves to "Invigorate and Inspire"

March 1, 2013

The City of New York’s Coney Island Hospital has seen its fair share of trauma these past weeks. That made a symposium on amputation prevention and the diabetic foot highly improbable.  In the words of Dr

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