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Scholl's Armstrong in Spain keynote: 'Amputations worse than cancer'

Dr. David Armstrong of Rosalind Franklin University's Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine delivered the keynote address last week at the Spanish National Symposium on the Diabetic Foot, where he suggested that diabetes-related amputations can be likened to high-grade cancers, and where he and his colleagues demonstrated new technologies via video conference.

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