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A few weeks ago, we launched The ZIP Code Lottery — a data narrative showing how amputation rates in Los Angeles County track almost perfectly with poverty, not clinical severity. It struck a nerve. The response told us something important: people want to see the data, and they ...


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We tell our patients to stay active. We tell them it matters. But how much activity, exactly? And what kind? A new study from our colleagues at Michigan and Oxford starts to put hard numbers behind the advice.

Reynolds and colleagues published a cross-sectional analysis of 2,878 people with diabetes in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. W...


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In 2009, California hospitals collectively documented 7,973 lower-extremity amputations in diabetic adults. Dr. Carl Stevens at Harbor-UCLA decided to ask a question most people in medicine had quietly avoided: where do these patients live?

The answer, published five years later in Health Affairs, was the kind of finding that is simultaneously...


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A podcast kept me up last night. Our middle daughter Natalie — a PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and someone who has an uncanny gift for finding things I didn’t know I needed — turned me onto a show called


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A new study from our USC group led by Carrie Tackett and Tze Woei Tan and  published today in Diabetology, adds important evidence to a troubling pattern: in the United States, who pays for your care can be just as consequential as the care itself — especially when your foot is on the line.

Carrie Tackett, Kevin Sun, Chia-Ding Shih, Laura Shin, Elizabeth ...


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