amputation

Speaking of taking care of your diabetic feet, I was contacted this week by a European company called MeDaVinci working feverishly on a high-tech home scanning device that they hope will prevent amputations in thousands of patients who already have neuropathy.
Their system is called the Vincent 50 — after the St.Vincent Declaration, a decree signed by global health organizations in 1989 that vowed to cut the rate of diabetes-related foot amputations by 50%.
 

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