A toe amputation may be necessary for a number of reasons, including following an accident or reduced blood supply due to a medical condition. The thought of this type of surgery can be frightening, ...

Pedicurists kept asking Yvonne Basil about a dark spot on her pinky toe, but she would them what she believed herself: It was just a mole. The charcoal-colored mark — about the size of a pencil eraser ...

With tick-borne afflictions spreading across the US at an alarming rate, there’s been an up-tick in horror stories involving this eight-legged scourge. Recently, an Ohio man lost all the toes on one ...

Wearing the wrong shoe size can apparently cost you more than just discomfort, it could lead to something even worse- your leg getting amputated. Martin Ralph, a UK man had to have a part of his foot ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Friday noted the potential increased risk of lower limb amputation (mostly affecting the toes) in patients taking the SGLT2 inhibitors canagliflozin, ...

Most people associate diabetes with high blood sugar, but the disease can also lead to several serious complications ...

Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. "Unfortunately, by the time a patient with diabetes and/or PAD ...

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is required to add new warnings to its diabetes drug, Invokana, about the risk of foot and leg amputations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday. Final ...