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The organization remains dedicated to its mission to reduce amputations across the globe - while addressing one of the most pertinent diseases of the modern day.
The Black American Amputation Epidemic. Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they ...
On Friday, Congressman Donald M. Payne Jr., a Democrat from New Jersey, introduced a sweeping bill to reduce unnecessary amputations and address racial disparities that were the subject of a ...
An amputation usually requires a hospital stay of five to 14 days or more, depending on the surgery and complications. The procedure itself may vary, depending on the limb or extremity being ...
Although amputation is a common complication of diabetes, it's preventable. Here's what you need to know.
NEW YORK — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation ...