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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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Smart Sox, Smart Insoles, Smart Bathmats keep people with #Diabetes a step ahead of amputations

March 19, 2013

Smart Sox keep diabetics a step ahead of complications – Tucson News Now : Tucson News Now

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The Pre-#DFCon13 SALSA Operating Room Playlist

March 16, 2013

From Lucinda Williams to Radiohead to Alt-J to Amanda Palmer to Wolfmother… this one is a rather nice prequel to this year’s DFCon.com. Enjoy… Cheers, -DGA Radiohead – Fog (Again) – Live The Ruffled Feathers – All My Cities Joel Alme – A Tender Trap Rodriguez – Cause Amanda Palmer – Fake Plastic Trees City and Colour – Sleeping Sickness Bat For Lashes – Laura Neutral Milk Hotel – April 8th Two Gallants – Despite What You’ve Been Told Seabear – I Sing I Swim J

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Virtual Healthcare Assistant – Buddying Up Patients with Mobile Tools

March 14, 2013

One licensed physician for every 370 people in the U.S.  Here’s an interesting  article  by Thomas Morrow, talking about the how data analytics tools, voice recognition and new user interfaces can be used to empower patients for their own care. Patient adherence is the biggest culprit in poor outcomes and high costs of healthcare.

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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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Epidermal Electronics? Wearable Electronic Sensors Can Now Be Printed Directly on the Skin

March 11, 2013

Wearable Electronic Sensors Can Now Be Printed Directly on the Skin . A new era in health monitoring

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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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Can something as simple as putting on a pair of "smart" socks help save the limbs and lives of people with #diabetes?

March 4, 2013

UA Department of Surgery Researchers Collaborate with Qatar to Study Use of ‘Smart’ Socks to Prevent Amputations in Patients with Diabetes Can something as simple as putting on a pair of socks help save the limbs and lives of people with diabetes?

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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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Pressure Relieving Interventions for Wounds- Cochrane Review: Non-Removable Offloading is Superior

March 3, 2013

Pressure-relieving interventions … [Cochrane Database Syst Rev

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