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World Diabetes Day is on November 14. For people with diabetes, long-term health can often be protected by managing common complications.

Living with diabetes means keeping a close eye on your feet. A small cut or blister can quickly turn into a wound that is difficult to treat and can have serious health consequences.

For many people, radiation therapy is a powerful, life-saving treatment for cancer. However, it can leave lasting changes in the healthy tissue surrounding the treated area.

While every person is unique, one thing most of us have in common is that we rely on our feet every day to get us from A to B. Looking after them is therefore essential to our mobility, comfort and overall wellbeing.

When a skin graft or a skin flap struggles to take, it is usually because the tissue is not receiving enough oxygen to heal. This is a recognised situation where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can help, used alongside, never instead of, standard medical care.

Rare Disease Day shines a light on conditions that are often overlooked or misunderstood. While non-healing wounds aren’t rare in the strict medical sense, they can be underestimated.

For many people, radiation therapy is a powerful, life-saving treatment for cancer. However, it can leave lasting changes in the healthy tissue surrounding the treated area.

When exploring a new treatment, it is reasonable to want to understand it first. On World Patient Safety Day, it is worth setting out clearly how hyperbaric oxygen therapy works.

When a skin graft or a skin flap struggles to take, it is usually because the tissue is not receiving enough oxygen to heal. This is a recognised situation where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can help, used alongside, not instead of, standard medical care.

Living with a diabetic foot ulcer that is not healing can be exhausting, painful, and stressful.