A lot of things change as you age — from mobility and balance to the strength and elasticity of your skin. As skin becomes more fragile, it tears more easily and often takes longer to heal.

Burn victims often face a long, painful road to recovery, with one of the most frustrating aspects being the slow and complex process of wound healing. For many, the journey is fraught with discomfort ...

Colorado School of Mines researcher develops polymer material that reduces inflammation and prevents infection.

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 ...

Dressings are long-established in the medical field for keeping wounds clean and preventing secondary infections. Dressings are essential for reducing infection risk; more recent advancements have ...

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.

"Sutures? That's practically medieval!" It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated.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 ...

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras have developed novel reduced graphene oxide loaded nanocomposite scaffolds for treating normal and diabetic wounds. Wounds in diabetic patients do ...

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 ...