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Clinical Predictors of Leg Ulcer Healing

Cutaneous Fungal Infections: Slideshow

Self-Healing Air Mattresses Based on Plant Wound Healing?

Feet First: Molecular Imaging Helps Diagnose Diabetic Foot Infection



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Disaster Medicine

Palliative and End of Life Care

Legal Issues
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Electronic Medical Records and Documentation
Is Your Practice EMP Ready?
Electronic health records could give rise to more liability risk


Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform and Cost Control

Business of Wound Care and Management
The 12-step Way to Reduce Practice Expenses: Part 1, Staffing Efficiencies
Improving How Your Clinic Communicates with Twitter
Doctors' group wants more accuracy from insurers

Ethics
Scholar calls for a new legal, ethical framework for research with human tissue specimens
A new emergency review tool to help research ethics review during public health emergencies

Health Economics
Vast Geographic Differences Found in Drug Spending Under Medicare
Clarifying Sources of Geographic Differences in Medicare Spending
Is the current recession compromising hospital quality?
Health-care economics and policy: It's a perfect storm

International Health
WHO Guidelines on Buruli Ulcer Need Adjustment, Experts Say
Community-based education strengthens campaign for elimination of lymphatic filariasis
Drug-resistant diseases on the rise: study


Diabetic Feet/Diabetic Ulcers
Dialysis Linked to Foot Ulceration in Diabetic Patients (CME/CE)
Topical Wound Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Prospective Controlled Study
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers — Prudent or Problematic: A Case Report
Efficacy of Ertapenem for Secondary Treatment of Diabetic Foot Infections
Neurostimulation: Can It Have An Impact For Painful Diabetic Neuropathy?
How To Form A Diabetic Limb Salvage Team
Is FDG-PET A Better Imaging Option For Diabetic Osteomyelitis?
Can Smart Orthotics Have An Impact In Preventing Ulceration?
How To Manage The Charcot Midfoot Deformity
Can Community-Based Programs Help Prevent Lower Extremity Amputations?
Partial Calcanectomy in High-Risk Patients With Diabetes: Use and Utility of a “Hurricane” Incisional Approach

Cochrane Reviews
Incision and drainage of perianal abscess with or without treatment of anal fistula

Diabetes Management
New Variants Found That Indicate a Predisposition to Type 2 Diabetes
Poor Control of Diabetes May Be Linked to Low Vitamin D
Importance of Insulin Delivery Devices for Diabetes Management
Near-normal blood sugar target did not delay risk of organ damage in people with diabetes
Sensor and insulin pump results in better blood-sugar control in all age groups with diabetes

Large Gap in Diabetes, Obesity Screening Among U.S. Health Clinics


Infection Management
Stand-alone surgery centers found lacking when it comes to infection control
Eschar with Cellulitis as a Clinical Predictor in Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Skin Abscess
Chronic Equine Wounds: What Is the Role of Infection and Biofilms?
Honey as an Antibiotic: Scientists Identify a Secret Ingredient in Honey That Kills Bacteria
Study Examines ICU Outbreak of Staph Aureus With Resistance to Methicillin and Linezolid
Drug-resistant diseases on the rise: study

Lymphedema
Community-based education strengthens campaign for elimination of lymphatic filariasis


Nutrition
Dealing With Patients Who Disregard Nutrition Advice

Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Develop a Culture of Safety: Create a Reporting System
Stand-alone surgery centers found lacking when it comes to infection control
Accountability Measures — Using Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement
Beating Doctor Burnout and Protecting Patients
Study Identifies Reasons for Higher Rate of Severe Sepsis Among Black Patients
Medicine's Secret Archives
Linguistics professor examines manufacturers' prescription drug websites
Survey Shows Dogma, Not Data, Can Dictate Doctors' Decisions
Pay-for-performance for hospitals
Is the current recession compromising hospital quality?

Prevention
How To Manage Friction Blisters

Psychosocial Issues
Stress 'can slow down the healing of a wound'
Dealing With Patients Who Disregard Nutrition Advice
Beating Doctor Burnout and Protecting Patients
Disfigurement Is More Than Skin Deep

Regulations, Reimbursement and Public Health
Pay-for-performance for hospitals
Large Gap in Diabetes, Obesity Screening Among U.S. Health Clinics

Skin and Scar Care
Mechanism That Limits Scar Formation Discovered
A Review of Scar Scales and Scar Measuring Devices
Free Clinics Provide Care for an Estimated 2 Million Americans Annually
Study shows age doesn't necessarily affect decision-making

Technology and Research News
SA studies use of crab shell nanofibres for use in wound healing
Bacterial chitchat proves distracting for wound healing
Scientists Engineering Advanced Wound Dressings: Embedded antibiotics would be released only when infection is detected, researchers say
A Review of Scar Scales and Scar Measuring Devices
A Model of Pressure Distribution Under Peripherally Secured Foam Dressings on a Convex Surface: Does This Contribute to Skin Graft Loss?
Determining What's in Your Laboratory Water
Pharmacogenomics on Its Way Toward Clinic
Are Biotech Inventions Still Protectable?
Honey as an Antibiotic: Scientists Identify a Secret Ingredient in Honey That Kills Bacteria
Bees Help to Beat MRSA Bugs
Carbon Nanotubes Form Ultrasensitive Biosensor to Detect Proteins
How Likely Is Misdiagnosis?
Poor Control of Diabetes May Be Linked to Low Vitamin D
Gene Therapy Reverses Type 1 Diabetes in Mice, Experimental Technique Shows
Understanding Genetic Mixing Through Migration: A Tool for Clinicians as Well as Geneaologists
LCD Television Waste Could Help Prevent Bacterial Infections
Understanding Robustness in Organisms -- A Potential Weapon Against Infectious Diseases
Circadian Clock in Pancreas Directly Linked to Diabetes
How Bacteria Boost the Immune System
Diabetic Potential to Create Own Insulin: Type 1 Diabetes Patients Attempt to Replenish Beta Cells
How Bacteria Make Syringes: Scientists Reconstruct a Bacterial Transport Channel in a Test Tube
New Evidence That Drinking Coffee May Reduce the Risk of Diabetes
A Launchpad for Stem Cell Research
Important New Player in Diabetes Onset Discovered
Medicine's Secret Archives
Superbug's 'CPU' Revealed: Researchers Discover Chemical Clue Directing Staphylococcus Aureus
Breakthrough in Stem Cell Culturing
Stem-cell therapy may provide new approach to fight infection
Importance of cell-cell communication
A 1-2 punch: Embryonic cell and adult pig islet transplants cure diabetes in rats
Researchers identify 12 new genes linked to diabetes
'Artificial pancreas' for diabetes is testing well
Scholar calls for a new legal, ethical framework for research with human tissue specimens
Diabetic potential to create own insulin
How Bacteria Boost the Immune System
A new emergency review tool to help research ethics review during public health emergencies
Study of MicroRNA Helps Scientists Unlock Secrets of Immune Cells


Vascular Management
Importance of cell-cell communication

Wound Assessment
Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV): Slideshow

Wound Treatment
Chronic Wounds Treated With a Physiologically Relevant Concentration of Platelet-rich Plasma Gel: A Prospective Case Series
Closure of Difficult Wounds by External Tissue Expansion
Current Concepts With Bioengineered Alternative Tissues
Incision and drainage of perianal abscess with or without treatment of anal fistula

 

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