Hydrogen peroxide might be the first thing you grab when treating a wound in order to help disinfect it. While the sometimes-painful bubbling is definitely sanitizing the area, it’s also destroying ...

Temple bioengineer Jonathan Arye Gerstenhaber applies liquid to a small piece of OmegaSkin, which is made from soy, for the bandage material to adhere to the skin. At a laboratory benchtop surrounded ...

Observing your dog licking wounds can evoke mixed reactions; some find it unpleasant, while others allow it. Many people believe a dog’s saliva has strong antibacterial properties that can help wounds ...

Advances in burns treatment open up new possibilities for healing other complicated wounds. For the first time, stem cells produced in compliance with the regulations governing the manufacture of ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Currents of electricity flowing through the body are often associated with bad things like electrocution. However, that power can be ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Whenever I got a wound while I was young, my mother would take me to the hospital to get stitches. I am now 94. I went to get a wound seen, and the nurse said that it needed to heal ...

To assess the potential for clinical use, the UC Davis team tested the device in preclinical wound models. In these studies, wounds treated with a-Heal followed a healing trajectory about 25% faster ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus—one of the most common causes of skin and soft ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.