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(Northwestern University) A new study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine has found people in African American communities in Chicago have a five times higher rate of lower limb amputations than people in the predominantly white suburbs and exurbs.

This starkly contrasts to a declining overall amputation rate in northern Illinois due to improved care for diabetes and peripheral vascular disease.

Amputations are the canary in the coal mine for primary care.

As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk, according to scientists at a press briefing this morning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.