Complicated, hard-to-heal wounds are a growing medical problem and there are currently only two drugs approved with proven efficacy. In a new study on humans, researchers at Uppsala University show ...

Approximately 6.5 to 6.7 million people in the U.S. are affected by chronic wounds each year, and this number is expected to increase as the population ages. Poor blood circulation, high blood sugar ...

Recently I had opportunity to provide care for a patient with a chronic wound. He asked what he could do to help his wound to ...

A recent Frontiers in Medicine study assesses the effectiveness of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to identify differences between infected and non-infected wounds. Study: Is my wound infected? A study on ...

In patients with diabetic foot ulcers that looked healed and met the current definition of a closed wound, closed ulcers with functionally defective skin that lost more body water were likely to ...

The patch delivers healing proteins from engineered cells in a mini "factory" around the clock to different types of injury.