A research team from Fudan University has developed a hydrogel technology based on microenvironment-responsive mechanisms.

Fungating breast cancer wounds require daily cleaning and proper dressings to manage symptoms. If surgery isn't an option, cleaning dead tissue and using specific dressings can help care for the wound ...

The Science of How Skin Actually Heals Skin healing is a coordinated biological sprint—your immune system clears debris, blood vessels rebuild, and new skin cells migrate in like microscopic ...

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 ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: My cat scratched me while I was trimming his claws, and the wound later became infected. Are cat scratches a special concern? A: A bite or scratch from a cat carries particular risks ...

Living conditions mean people struggle to fight infections and risk losing a limb. A clinic offers a solution.

What is a hard-to-heal wound? There are many definitions of hard-to-heal. More conventionally, it's based on underlying etiology of the wound, but in practice it's any wound that has not healed within ...

November is National Diabetes Month, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 38 million Americans have diabetes. For many people, managing diabetes is about more than ...