During the wound-healing process, there's an increase in fibroblast activity, which revs up collagen production in the skin. If your skin produces a little too much collagen around the site of a wound ...

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a major clinical challenge, with high rates of morbidity, disability, amputations and ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...

In some cases, chimpanzees dabbed their open wounds with leaves. In rarer cases, they chewed up plant material (like leaves ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned through discussing wound care with my patients over the years, it’s that some of the greatest obstacles are not medical, but myths.

HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital’s Wound Healing Center has once again been awarded the Center of Distinction award by ...

The Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center at Paris Regional Health, a member of the Healogics network, is shining a ...

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in ...

They found that human wounds took more than twice as long to heal as wounds of any of the other mammals. Our slow healing may be a result of an evolutionary trade-off we made long ago, when we ...

How an applied electric field for medical electrotherapy speeds wound healing. Creation of the self-powered, non-electronic electrotherapy patch. Results of the electrical and medical performance ...

A new study has identified an RNA molecule that is important for skin wound healing. The research may have implications for the treatment of hard-to-heal wounds. A new study from Karolinska ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The complex process of wound healing has long challenged medical professionals seeking to monitor recovery accurately and non-invasively. Traditional methods of assessing wound ...