WASHINGTON — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...

Deep in the rain forests of Indonesia, there’s no such thing as running to the pharmacy for soap and bandages to tend to a fresh wound. People living in the area have coped by turning the forest ...

A model of the a-Heal wearable device. As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called “a-Heal,” ...

Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a Sumatran orangutan they’d affectionately named Rakus carefully treating a ...

An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted ...

When Krystal DeVos watches her young daughter, Eliana, play with an Ariel doll, her eyes fill with emotion. “I call her my little mermaid,” DeVos said of her daughter. Shortly after Eliana was born, ...

In more than 20 years of field research, Rakus is the first orangutan to be observed using a medicinal plant to treat wounds. Armas / Suaq Project via Max Planck Institute In June 2022, a team of ...

A deeper look into the impacts of shootings on children and their communities. — -- Three children have died from gun violence in Chicago this week, a city that has seen a record number of ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DrySee®, a medical technology company dedicated to improving wound care, created the first patented wound dressing that will change colors to indicate it should be changed.

A Tennessee kindergarten teacher who police said was kidnapped during a pre-dawn run and then killed earlier this month died from a gunshot wound to the head, an autopsy report released Thursday ...