Most people think of wound care as a simple routine: clean the cut, apply something to it, and wait for it to heal. This approach works for very minor injuries, but it often falls short for anything ...

Skin grafts genetically engineered from a patient's own cells can heal persistent wounds in people with an extremely painful dermatologic disease, a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial has shown. The ...

Acting as a vital protective barrier, the skin shields an organism's internal tissues and organs from damage. As a result, an organism must quickly repair the barrier after a skin injury occurs. To ...

Developed at Wake Forest University, vacuum-assisted closure therapy has helped an estimated 20 million patients — and earned ...

On our day to day lives, we fall down, or sometimes get a paper cut, or just a kitchen mishap may happen. Then there it is, a wound. It is such a simple, everyday life thing, but have we ever thought ...

Miami, FL / Syndication Cloud / January 23, 2026 / Kure Care a division of Veracor Group LLC Key Takeaways Approximately 6.5 to 6.7 million people in the U.S. are affected by chronic wounds each year, ...

TIME OF DAY. RESEARCHERS SAY DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGY CAN HEAL WOUNDS THREE TIMES FASTER THAN A TRADITIONAL BANDAGE. THE INNOVATION IS IN ITS EARLY STAGES, BUT RESEARCHERS CALL IT PROMISING. KETV ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cell-based, gene therapy skin graft healed large chronic wounds for patients with epidermolysis bullosa. The ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

Skin wounds that fail to heal in a normal timeframe are considered to be chronic, and an estimated two percent of the global population will experience a chronic wound in their lifetime. 1 In addition ...

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, ...

Chronic infected wounds can take over daily life, especially for people living with diabetes. These wounds often refuse to ...