New therapeutic approaches have emerged for preventing diabetic foot ulcers and promoting their healing. Endocrinologist and diabetes specialist Olivier Bourron, MD, of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, described these approaches at the 48th annual congress of the Francophone Diabetes Society … Unlike macroangiopathic complications (such as ischemic heart disease and stroke) and renal complications, foot ulcers are a diabetic complication for which there has been very little therapeutic progress over the past 20 years … read more