Peptic ulcers are painful open sores or lesions in either the stomach (gastric ulcers) or duodenal lining (duodenal ulcers). Ulcers affect more than four million people each year and account for approximately 40,000 surgeries and six thousand deaths....

A breach in the surface of the skin or mucous membrane of the body. It is characterised by having resulted in the activation of the body healing mechanism (suppuration, redness, etc.) but in which the healing process is slow in concluding or fails to...

An ulcer is any break in the skin or in a mucous membrane. Mucous membrane is a thin tissue that lines the interior surface of body openings. The term ulcer is used most commonly to refer to ulcers that occur in the upper part of the digestive system,...

Ulcers are healing wounds that develop on the skin, mucous membranes or eye. Although they have many causes, they are marked...

Diabetics, watch out: A hot spot on your foot can signal an ulcer is brewing, a wound that could cost your limb. New research shows that using a special thermometer to measure the temperature of their soles can give patients enough early warning to avoid...

Diabetics, watch out: A hot spot on your foot can signal an ulcer is brewing, a wound that could cost your limb.New research shows that using a special thermometer to measure the temperature of their soles can give patients enough early warning to avoid one...

New research shows that using a special thermometer to measure the temperature of the soles of diabetics' feet can give patients enough early warning to avoid one of the disease's most intractable complications, loss of a limb.It is a simple-sounding protection for such a huge...

A stubbed toe can lead to having your foot amputated? It can if you're a longtime diabetic. And it can happen fast."Tuesday in the office, they're fine. Friday, they're in the emergency room with gangrene in a toe," says Dr. Peter Sheehan, diabetes chief at...