New, easily prepared materials promote more rapid healing of wounds in laboratory animals than conventional dressings do, researchers report. The new films ultimately could quicken the recovery of ...

One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. To bring relief to this and other problems, University of Waterloo researchers have ...

From using silver to heal wounds to a plaster that goes fluorescent when your wound gets infected – the future of wound care is here! Ground-breaking medical technology and techniques are changing the ...

Chronic wounds are a major medical challenge, burdening health care systems with billions of dollars in costs every year. Pioneer Fellow Börte Emiroglu is developing a new product: a selective, sponge ...

With military conflicts continuing to rage on in many regions of the globe, understanding how tissues regenerate and heal is an area of research that has come to the forefront in recent years.

Bernard Ross, CEO of Sky Medical Technology, outlines how the NHS can ease pressures in chronic wound care management.

Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections, or SSIs. Nanofiber-based wound ...

It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated. The technique has, after all, been in use for at least 5,000 years. Surely medicine should have advanced since ancient Egypt. Professor ...