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Diabetic foot wounds kill millions, but high-tech solutions and teamwork are making a difference

  • Written by David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery, University of Southern California
A man who has a prosthetic leg sits in a wheelchair. With better care, the need for amputations could be lessened. Katy Pack/Shutterstock.com

What if someone told you that there’s a disease you could catch where you couldn’t feel any symptoms coming on? And that this occurs every 1.2 seconds somewhere in the world?

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