Diabetes significantly complicates the wound healing process through multiple mechanisms that work against the body’s natural recovery abilities. High blood glucose levels damage blood vessels, ...

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 ...

Holland Hospital has expanded its wound healing and hyperbaric medicine program, giving West Michigan patients access to advanced treatment for chronic and complex wounds.

Jess Whited, a regenerative scientist at Harvard University and the co-founder of Matice Biosciences, is using AI to cure scarring. She sat down with Jessica Abo to talk about her company. Jessica Abo ...

A smart bandage could speed up wound healing by actively tracking and responding to the healing process. The proof-of-concept device, called a-Heal, was designed to fit inside a commercial colostomy ...

We are wounded when our social relationships are not empathic, with the greatest effects occurring in childhood when our neurobiology and sociality are founded, our sense of self established. To ...

New research reveals a surprising link between red hair and wound healing. The gene responsible for red hair, MC1R, ...

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Freiburg, Germany, shows that wounds on cultured skin cells heal three times faster when stimulated with electric ...

MC1R is best known for something quite different from wound healing: the gene is responsible for red hair and very fair skin.