News Item - 01/27/2012 - SMA Informatics

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CDC: Diabetes amputations falling dramatically
^{by Mike Stobbe}

Foot and leg amputations were once a fairly common fate for diabetics, but new government research shows a dramatic decline in limbs lost to the disease, probably due to better treatments.

The rate has fallen by more than half since the mid-1990s, according to what is being called the most comprehensive study of the trend.

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