The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, ...

To address this problem, scientists are developing new ways to treat infected wounds using specially designed nanomaterials ...

Skin is our protective barrier from the outside world, and it is highly susceptible to damage. To prevent infection, restore ...

Researchers at Rice University developed a cytokine factory patch that continuously releases healing proteins into wounds, ...

Rice University researchers developed a "living bandage" that uses engineered cells to deliver healing proteins directly to ...

What Is an Avulsion Wound? An avulsion wound refers to a wound in which a part of the body has been torn off or removed through either surgery or trauma. There are many types of avulsion wounds, ...

Years ago, during my "marketing and sales period", a nurse approached me during a break at a seminar to ask my advice about a patient and his wound. Instead of describing the patient and his problems, ...

National Nurses Week, celebrated May 6-12, 2017, offers an opportunity to reflect on the art and science of the profession, which combines clinical knowledge and the ability to make a difference in ...

When you're resting at home after your operation, you'll need to keep an eye on the wound your surgeon left behind. It's going to go through some changes in the next month, and you'll probably find ...

The mouse excisional wound healing model has been used extensively to study wound healing and cutaneous regeneration. However, as mouse skin is mobile, contraction accounts for a large part of wound ...

In several of my Psychology Today blog posts over the past few years (the most recent dealing with Christopher Dorner’s manifesto), I referred to individuals who are “wound collectors.”* Many had ...