It’s far too easy to end up with a wound or a scrape doing just about anything. Accidents happen, and the important thing to know is how to heal a wound before an infection develops. If an infection ...

When you’ve had a wound that required stitches, the recovery period can feel frustratingly slow. Whether from surgery, an accident, or another injury, properly cared for stitches not only heal faster ...

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

CAD model of There Heal wearable device, illustrating the integrated camera for wound monitoring and actuator for drug delivery or stimulation. As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: ...

Researchers have developed skin-inspired electronics to conform to the skin, allowing for long-term, high-performance, real-time wound monitoring in users. Researchers at Binghamton University, State ...

Our bodies frequently heal wounds, like a cut or a scrape, on their own. However patients with diabetes, vascular disease, and skin disorders, sometimes have difficulty healing. This can lead to ...

Scientists at Indiana University (IU) have discovered that a chemical compound found in essential oils improves the healing process in mice when it is topically applied to a skin wound. The team ...

WASHINGTON, January 19, 2021 -- Biomedical engineers developed a technique to observe wound healing in real time, discovering a central role for cells known as fibroblasts. The work, reported in APL ...

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 ...

Research may provide new insights into wound healing, scarring and how cancer spreads. When we get a wound on our skin, the cells in our bodies quickly mobilize to repair it. While it has been known ...