Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood ...

Here’s what to do to treat a cut to prevent infection and hasten healing. Don’t “air it out,” and put down the hydrogen ...

Pressure wounds are a growing healthcare issue, and accurate characterization is necessary for appropriate treatment.

When you have a wound on your skin — whether from a casual scrape or in the aftermath of surgery — it’s important to keep it ...

Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial ...

Avulsion wounds of the skin are typically a severe type of skin injury. These wounds often require surgery to repair. While the treatment and care of avulsion wounds will depend on how severe the ...

Best wound healing creams to treat cuts and scrapes - Nourishing ingredients to encourage the healing process and prevent ...

When you get a scratch or cut, you clean it up, put a bandage on it, and in a week or two, it’s healed. But what happens if ...

Hinman and Maibach have shown that in human skin wounds, as in pig's skin, epidermal regeneration is faster when the wound surface is moist than when exposed to the air and dry. There is little ...

Swift Medical, a pioneer in digital wound care, has unveiled the new Skin & Wound 2 platform. As the gold standard for the ...

The treatment relies on new technology that creates a multi-layered graft of bioengineered skin, from a sample of the patient ...

Acupuncture can alleviate pain and improve function in patients with chronic sciatica from a herniated disk, according to a ...