Prior to attending podiatry school, Maria Pena Felix was a health coach at her local community...
Inspired Podiatry Students Launch New ALPS Student Chapter at CSPM/SMU
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Emphasizing Limb Loss Prevention with the New ALPS Student Chapter at TUSPM
Temitope Elizabeth Adebayo and Benita Jebackumar, two second-year students at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine (TUSPM), have seen the impact of diabetes and amputation firsthand in...
Large Study of Medicare Patients with DFUs Reveals Benefits of DHACM in Reducing Amputations and Long-Term Health-Care Costs
In a recently published study involving Medicare patients with diabetic foot ulcers, researchers found that the use of dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane (DHACM) led to less emergency...
American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS) Names New CEO Georgia Krehbiel
The American Limb Preservation Society (ALPS) board of directors has named Georgia Krehbiel its new CEO. With more than 25 years of experience in both national and international organizations,...
New Guidelines For Addressing Nutrition Deficits In People With DFUs
Current estimates show that 37.3 million people, or 11.3 percent of the United States population, have diabetes.1 More than one-third of these patients will develop a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) and...
Study Takes Closer Look at Major Amputations and Socioeconomic Disparities in Metropolitan Areas
In a recently published study in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), researchers assessed nearly 189,000 Medicare fee-for-service patients in over 31,000 different zip codes (with...
