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Adults with heart-healthy metrics had better health from head to toe
A review of a decade of studies on cardiovascular health found that the benefits of ideal heart health extend beyond the ...
Hospice nurse who amputated patient’s foot without permission for use in sickening taxidermy display escapes jail sentence
Warning: Disturbing content A Wisconsin nurse who amputated a patient’s frostbitten foot without authorization and planned to use it as a ghoulish display in her family’s taxidermy shop was given a ...
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Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet: How Ancients Invented Prosthetics
An early mention of a prosthetic comes from Herodotus, who tells the story of Hegesistratus, an ancient Greek diviner who cut off his foot.
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A One Minute Scan Of Your Foot Could Help Prevent Amputation – Here’s How
Our research team asked a simple question: could we turn a routine ultrasound scan into a quick, reliable way to measure ...
The one-minute scan that could help prevent future amputation
The acceleration index alone was able to predict the standard toe–brachial index with 88 per cent accuracy. Using a simple ...