Diabetes significantly complicates the wound healing process through multiple mechanisms that work against the body’s natural recovery abilities. High blood glucose levels damage blood vessels, ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have discovered how light, electricity, and tiny forces can work together to help ...

Waiting for a scar to fade can feel like a bit of a waiting game. But if you’re looking to speed up the healing process, silicone scar sheets might be able to help. Silicone scar sheets are ...

On our day to day lives, we fall down, or sometimes get a paper cut, or just a kitchen mishap may happen. Then there it is, a wound. It is such a simple, everyday life thing, but have we ever thought ...

Recently, a young bear with third-degree burns was treated with tilapia skins. Recently, Dr. Jamie Peyton received a phone call from a fellow veterinarian at the California Department of Fish and ...

Q: Thank you so very much for posting about sugar to heal open wounds. Every winter, I get deep fissures in my fingertips from cold, dry air. Not only are they extremely painful, but I also cannot ...

Today, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved prademagene zamikeracel cellular sheets (pz-cel, Zevaskyn), the first autologous cell-based gene therapy for treating wounds in adults and ...

Volunteer registered nurse Jennifer D'Angelo treats Patrick C.'s skin wounds in a screened-off section of the Savage Sisters' community outreach storefront in the Kensington neighborhood of ...

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities. By Elizabeth Preston Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko ...