TAMPA – Moffitt Cancer Center surgeon Doug Letson has an enemy. It’s the number 448. That’s how many American children learn they have bone cancer each year, then face painful treatments, the risk of limb amputation and possible death. It doesn’t matter that those children account for just 4 percent of the 11,210 annual pediatric [...]
Author: Alan • Monday, July 18th, 2011 Failings at a Croydon Hospital which led to a woman having to suffer a limb amputation, has resulted in a successful £75,000 medical negligence compensation claim. The woman, who has not been named, was admitted to the Croydon University Hospital, suffering with pains in her leg and an [...]
By Emily Cook 12/10/2009 A woman whose leg was needlessly amputated has received a six-figure payout from the hospital trust responsible for the blunder. Doreen Nicholls, 72, was told a lump in her foot was cancerous and that her leg should be removed. But after the operation at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH), Birmingham, she [...]
Meningitis charities are warning parents to be aware of the symptoms this winter. Nerys Davies tells Health Editor Madeleine Brindley how the deadly disease almost claimed the life of her youngest daughter Amber JULY 1, 2005 is etched on Nerys Davies’ memory – it is the day her youngest daughter almost died after she contracted [...]
BY DR. DAVID ABDOO For The Salinas Californian About 82,000 per year — that’s how many legs and feet are amputated annually in the United States because of diabetes. Diabetes affects about 23.6 million people in the United States. People with diabetes have a 15 percent greater risk of lower extremity amputation than those without [...]
HEALTHBEAT: Frustrated foot specialists find too many diabetics on stairway to amputation By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press WASHINGTON It costs $1,400 to cover the oozing sore on the diabetic’s foot with a piece of artificial skin, helping it heal if patients keep pressure off that spot. So when Medicare paid for the treatment but [...]
By Shands/PIO August 20, 2009 Bria Brown, a 13 year-old Miami girl, calls herself the Queen Bee Survivor — and that she is. When she was only 6 years old, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare, progressive form of bone cancer. The disease targets the knees, one of the fastest growing areas in the [...]
By Gregg Zoroya – USA Today Posted : Thursday Aug 20, 2009 19:21:48 EDT Military scientists have identified genes and proteins called biomarkers that could enable doctors to tailor personalized treatments for troops suffering traumatic injuries, such as those caused by roadside bombs. Researchers hope the troops will heal and recover faster, said Navy Cmdr. [...]
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL–(Marketwire – August 20, 2009) – Wake Pharma US, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) Seal of Approval for its innovative product, Wound-Be-Gone®, based on a revolutionary oxygen free radical binding technology. In addition to the growing number of professional awards, Wound-Be-Gone® continues to [...]
Published Date: 20 August 2009 Thursday 3.25pm A WARNING has been issued to parents, urging them to be on their guard against meningitis as their children return to school after the summer holidays. Charity Meningitis UK says the close confines of a classroom put youngsters more at risk from the deadly brain bug. There are [...]
The name is not commonly known and is difficult to pronounce, but the disease afflicts an estimated 12 million Americans. It’s called critical limb ischemia. Treatments are lacking and often require amputation, but help may be on the way: A potential solution for people afflicted with diabetes and obesity who are facing amputation of a [...]
In an earlier article I wrote that diabetes is a disease that creeps up on you and before you know it, a person can be diagnosed with diabetes at quite a late stage. I had suggested that those in the high-risk group of getting diabetes should be prudent and look through their family history to [...]
NewsTarget.com 10/08/2009 08:00 (NaturalNews) Jerome, a 53-year-old high school teacher, was in the hospital awaiting amputation of his left leg. He’d been receiving IV antibiotics to treat a diabetic ulcer, a wide, oozing open wound on his ankle, but this didn’t halt the steady advance of gangrene, and he was told they had no choice [...]
Monday, August 10, 2009, 18:00 by Aline Nassif To her patients, surgeon Stella Vig is something of a phenomenon at Mayday Hospital. Her gift is saving thousands of diabetic patients the agony of losing a leg. The 42-year-old vascular surgeon and diabetes expert has received two prestigious awards in the last few weeks for her [...]
André Picard (From Monday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 03:09AM EDT) Imagine for a moment that you have a cancerous tumour eating away at the bone and muscle in your leg. You can choose to amputate the leg or undergo surgery that removes the cancer and leaves the limb intact. [...]
Mark Hyman, MD Diabetes is not reversible and controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ damage and death. That is what the medical profession would have you believe, but medication and insulin can actually increase your risk getting a heart attack or dying. The diabetes epidemic is accelerating along [...]
The Pain of Foot Neuropathy Neuropathy deals with anything to do with the nerves or the nervous system. What is peripheral neuropathy? Peripheral neuropathy is an umbrella term for any disorder affecting the peripheral nerves. The spinal cord is the main nerve but nerves branch out like antennas from the spinal cord to different parts [...]
DURHAM, NC–(Marketwire – August 5, 2009) – Aldagen, Inc. today announced that it has received a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) concurrence letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the design of a Phase 3 study of ALD-301 for Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI). An SPA is a written agreement between the Company, as [...]
On the 31st May, a glorious sunny Sunday morning I was lucky enough to be part of a select crowd of people associated with Sir Douglas who had gathered outside his old home in Petersham Mews to see an English Heritage Blue Plaque unveiled in his honour by Sir Richard Branson. Douglas and his first [...]
I’ve been contacted by Jan Harrell about the above invention. We have featured it before as a News item but feel that it is such a wonderful mobility device that it deserved more coverage. Here is an introduction and some background information about it after which you can click on the Website link if you’d [...]
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
www.thebadercup.co.uk
Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.
